EDINBURG, Texas – Donald Trump will return to the U.S.-Mexico border for a visit Sunday as he promotes a hardline immigration agenda that would be far more expansive than the policies he pursued during his first term as president.
Trump is scheduled to deliver his remarks in Edinburg, Texas, after serving meals to National Guard soldiers, police officers and others who will be stationed at the border over Thanksgiving. He will be joined by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, a longtime ally and fellow border hawk who is expected to endorse the front-runner for the 2024 nomination during the visit, according to a person close to Trump who spoke on condition of anonymity before a formal announcement.
Trump has been unveiling immigration proposals that would mark a dramatic escalation of the approach he used in office and sparked alarm from civil rights activists and numerous court challenges.
“On my first day back in the White House, I will end all of the Biden administration’s open border policies. “I will stop the invasion on our southern border and begin the largest internal deportation operation in American history,” he said Saturday in Iowa.
President Trump will lay out his immigration agenda in a visit to the border on Sunday, with priorities that go beyond those pursued during his term.AP
He also wants:
- revive and expand its controversial travel ban, which initially targeted seven Muslim-majority countries. Trump’s initial executive order was challenged all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld what Trump complained was a “watered down” version that included travelers from North Korea and some Venezuelan officials.
- begin a new “ideological test” for all immigrants, with the goal of banning entry into the United States of “Christian-hating communists and Marxists” and “lunatics, haters, fanatics, and dangerous maniacs.” “Those who come and join our country must love it,” he has said.
- ban those who support Hamas. “If you empathize with terrorists and radical Islamic extremists, you are disqualified,” Trump says. “If you want to abolish the State of Israel, you are disqualified. “If you support Hamas or any ideology that has to do with that or any of the other really sick thoughts that go through people’s minds (very dangerous thoughts), you are disqualified.”
- deport immigrants living in the country who harbor “jihadist sympathies” and send immigration agents to “pro-jihadist demonstrations” to identify offenders. It would target foreign nationals on college campuses and revoke the student visas of those who express anti-American or anti-Semitic views.
- invoke the Alien Enemies Act to expel all known or suspected gang members and drug traffickers from the United States. That law was used to justify internment camps in World War II. It allows the president to unilaterally detain and deport people who are not US citizens.
- end the constitutional right to birthright citizenship by signing an executive order on his first day in office that would codify a legally untested reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. Under his order, only children with at least one U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident parent would be eligible for a passport, Social Security number and other benefits.
- rescind all work permits and cut funding for housing and transportation for people who are in the country illegally.
- build more wall along the border, crack down on legal asylum seekers, and reimplement measures like Title 42, which allowed Trump to turn away immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border on the grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
- pressure Congress to pass a law so that anyone caught trafficking women or children would receive the death penalty.
- transfer federal law enforcement agents, including FBI and DEA personnel, to immigration enforcement, and relocate thousands of troops currently stationed abroad to the southern border. “Before defending the borders of foreign countries, we must secure our country’s border,” he said.
A Trump supporter awaits his arrival at South Texas International Airport on Sunday.AP
Trump has made frequent trips to the border as a candidate and president. During his 2016 campaign, he traveled to Laredo, Texas, in July 2015, for a visit that highlighted how his views on immigration helped him gain media attention and support from the Republican base.
The border has also become a centerpiece of Abbott’s agenda and the subject of a growing fight with the Biden administration over immigration. The three-term governor approved billions of dollars in construction of a new border wall, authorized razor wire on the banks of the Rio Grande and bussed thousands of immigrants to Democratic-led cities across the United States.
Trump was expected to speak in Edinburg, Texas.AP
Abbott is expected to soon sign what would be one of Texas’ most aggressive measures to date: a law that allows police officers to arrest immigrants suspected of entering the country illegally and empowers judges to effectively deport them. The move is a dramatic challenge to the US government’s authority over immigration. He has already received reprimands from Mexico.
A Marquette Law School poll of registered voters conducted in late September gave Trump a 24-point lead over Biden on handling immigration and border security issues: 52% to 28%.
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