Raw Story: Trump team considers 'illegal' workaround to speed up key campaign promise: report

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - Trump team considers 'illegal' workaround to speed up key campaign promise: report

Travis Gettys
December 5, 2024 7:43AM ET

Donald Trump's incoming administration intends to deport migrants to countries they've never visited if their home countries refuse to accept them, according to a new report.

Three sources familiar with the plans say administration officials are preparing a list of countries – including but limited to Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama and Grenada – where they would send undocumented migrants as part of planned mass deportations, although it's not clear they would be allowed to legally work or live in those nations, reported NBC News.

“President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to stop the invasion of illegal immigrants, secure the border, and deport dangerous criminals and terrorists that make our communities less safe," said transition team spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. "He will deliver."

It's also not clear what pressure the transition team is applying to the targeted countries to secure an agreement, or what the president-elect might do once he's inaugurated, but the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups sued his first administration over a policy that sent migrants on a relatively small scale to Guatemala under an agreement with that country.

“We sued over this type of policy during the first Trump administration because it was illegal and put asylum-seekers at grave risk," said ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt.

The plan to deport migrants to third-party countries is under consideration as a workaround to logistical challenges for what Trump has promised would be “the largest deportation operation in American history," and the sources said he also wants Mexico to accept non-Mexicans who are deported from the U.S.

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[duncang]

1. And they would

Be sent right back to the U.S.. Are they taking a page from the Desantis and Abbott playbook? This time it won’t work. All it will do is cost more money.

[Bettie]

3. But the more money it costs

the more they can skim off the top and put into their own bank accounts. Of course 'the king" gets his portion first.

[cab67]

5. And those to brought them there

would probably be sent to prison in these countries. Their aircraft would be seized.

[DENVERPOPS]

7. they would probably

have to fly these people to that country, and all the country's airport controllers would have to do is deny them landing.......

Anyways, can you imagine the expense of flying just ONE immigrant, let alone thousands and thousands? Of course, if he plans on using Military for a civilian purpose, he will have to invalidate the Posse Comatatus act first, which he is certainly planning on doing anyway so he can use the military to police the nation with an "emergency" declaration..........

You asked for it, you got it, Toyota......will be changed to: You asked for it, you got it, Trump/Fascism.......

[louis-t]

2. Chaos.

Total, fucking, chaos.

[johnnyfins]

4. It will be just like a list of things from his

1st presidency.

Hillary not locked up
Wall not built
Mexico didnt pay one dime
Obamacare still exists

[cab67]

6. I actually don't think they'll try this.

Or if they do, it won't last long.

These countries would not only send the migrants back to the US; they would probably also arrest those who brought them there for human trafficking. Their aircraft would be seized. That means the private companies that could do this would start refusing to participate - it would be a huge liability for them. At the very least, their insurers would intervene.

[DET]

8. Horrifying

Trump can’t just impose his agenda on other countries. I can’t imagine how those subject to deportation must feel right now.

[Initech]

9. Trump is one truly sick psychopathic fuck.

[70sEraVet]

10. Perhaps the Felon's badministration is planning to pay those countries.....

so much per head to keep those would-be immigrants? That would definitely be a lose/lose for the US -- lose workers, and lose taxpayer dollars. Sounds like the perfect plan.

[WarGamer]

11. free transport to the Turks and Caicos?

I predict more than a few volunteers... and not just immigrants.

[republianmushroom]

12. For some reason , believe, the convicted felons team and administration

and the term 'Illegal" are going to be used often.

[OrangeJoe]

13. Small island nations

Do you have any idea how small Grenada, Turks & Caicos and the Bahamas are? They couldn’t house more than a handful of new arrivals, especially Grenada which got whacked by a hurricane lately and lost a huge portion of their housing stock.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

14. Protestants vs.Catholics?

This migrant thing comes off to me as Protestants vs. Catholics. Sunnis and Shiites American style?

Houses divided and all that stuff.