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Experts: Trump Mass Deportation Pledge Faces Legal, Economic Barriers

November 07, 2024 (1 min read)

Paula Ramon, Chris Lefkow, AFP, Nov. 6, 2024

"Donald Trump has pledged to launch — on day one of his presidency — the largest deportation operation of undocumented immigrants in US history.  Carrying it out may be another matter.  “Rhetoric is one thing,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of immigration law at Cornell University. “Actual implementation is something else.”  “The Constitution provides due process for everyone in the country, not just US citizens, so Trump cannot just round up people and send them out of the country the next day,” Yale-Loehr told AFP. “There already is a backlog of over 3.6 million cases in our immigration courts.”  Aside from the legal and humanitarian issues, a mass deportation of millions of people would entail enormous budgetary and economic costs and be a logistical nightmare."