From NPR
"The former president has said that in order to deport over 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S., he’d invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, deploy troops to the border using the Insurrection Act and mobilize local police.
Legal scholars question the feasibility of the first two options, but they say the last one, using local law enforcement agencies to question and detain undocumented immigrants, is a more likely scenario.
A Trump administration could simply push local law enforcement to ramp up the existing program of collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The program, 287(g), or “Secure Communities,” has existed since the 1990s, and has been praised by Trump. Currently, counties in 21 states participate.
But many have also refused."
From Reuters
Summary
- Trump's deportation push expected to utilize military, diplomats and other government workers
- Immigrant advocates warn of costly, divisive, and inhumane consequences
- Trump's plan to use 1798 Alien Enemies Act could draw legal challenges
From CBS News
CBS News' analysis of immigration system data found:
- Apprehending and deporting just 1 million people could cost taxpayers about $20 billion.
- Deporting 11 million people over four years would cost more than 20 times what the nation spent a year over the last five years on deporting people living in the U.S. Most of that would be new funding that would have to be approved by a majority of both chambers of Congress.
- Assuming Trump did get the funding and could rapidly expand the staffing in immigration enforcement and courts, the backlog of cases would grow — not decrease — by millions of cases based on what's happened in the last two administrations.
- Trump's own administration, despite promising to deport millions in 2016, deported 325,660 people during the fiscal years he was in office.
