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There are signs declaring, “Mass Deportation Now!” at the Republican National Convention. This fully embraces Donald Trump’s pledge to expel millions of migrants in the largest deportation program in American history.
AFP reports that, however, quite a few Republicans are not ready for that.
A Republican activist from Texas, Lauren B. Pena said that hearing Trump’s calls for mass deportations, as well as terms like “illegal” thrown around at the convention, made her feel uncomfortable. She, like some Republicans in Congress, who have advanced balanced approaches to immigration, hopes Trump is just blustering.
“He’s not meaning to go and deport every family that crosses the border; he means deport the criminals and sex offenders,” she said.
However, Trump and his advisers have other aces up their sleeves. Trump is putting immigration at the heart of his campaign to retake the White House and pushing the Republican Party towards a bellicose strategy that hearkens to the 1950s when former President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched a deportation policy known by a racial slur – “Operation Wetback.”
