Former President Donald Trump revealed his plans for mass deportation during his keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference if he wins a second term in office in 2024.
“Under my leadership, we will employ all appropriate state, municipal, federal, and military resources to carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” Trump told the CPAC audience on Saturday. We will remove them from our country and throw them out without question.
Meetings at the border between the United States and Mexico reached record highs in the fiscal year 2022, infuriating many conservatives. Trump blamed Biden’s administration for the crisis.
He added that President Joe Biden’s government “took it away and they buried it” after his administration allegedly stockpiled materials to build a border wall.
Trump stated that the first reconciliation package he would sign would increase border patrol and ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] deportation officers significantly. Other countries are emptying their prisons, insane asylums, and mental hospitals and dumping their problems there.
Trump continued, “We will pick them up and toss them out. I will order every state and federal agency to identify every known or suspected gang member in America and every one of them that is here illegally.
Trump has long prioritized stopping illegal immigration. The latter did not happen during his first term, but building a wall and making Mexico pay for it was one of his defining political messages during the 2016 campaign. In addition to immigration, Trump has stated that he intends to target American cities with rising crime rates.
“Unless law and order are reinstated, I’ll dispatch the National Guard. In his keynote address, Donald Trump added, “You know we’re not supposed to do that.
Trump first spoke at CPAC in 2011, about four years before bursting onto the political scene and winning the presidency. Trump easily won the straw poll at CPAC 2023, demonstrating his stronghold on the conservative base.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), his most likely opponent in 2024, chose not to attend the conference in order to avoid a split-screen debate with him.
