Trump vows military roundups of millions of immigrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "According to NBC News, Trump's immigration team is planning to double the number of beds approved by Congress for operation by ICE, particularly near cities like New York, Washington and Chicago, and this could be accomplished by ICE contracting with private prison operators.
54% : Another order would repeal all executive orders issued under President Biden reversing the anti-migrant orders by Trump during his first term in office.
50% : Trump and Miller are also reportedly planning to challenge a key provision of the post-Civil War settlement, "birthright citizenship," which is laid down in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which declares that any child born on US soil is automatically entitled to US citizenship.
49% : In an earnings call with investors, CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger reportedly declared, "We think that the outcome of this election is probably going to be notable for ICE for a couple of different reasons.
47% : Trump was quoting and endorsing a posting on his Truth Social platform by Tom Fitton, head of the ultra-right group Judicial Watch.
46% : In the course of his presidential campaign, Trump constantly increased the number of immigrants he would target for deportation, raising it to 15 and then 20 million.
41% : Trump, in his first four-year term, never matched the record set by the Democratic "deporter-in-chief.
38% : "Trump has indicated that his first target would be the 1.2 million migrants who have final deportation orders from federal immigration judges.
36% : These would include repealing Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from several countries, including Haitians -- among them the 20,000 Haitians living and working in Springfield, Ohio, who were the targets of vilification and false charges by Trump and his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance.
29% : Previous administrations, including Trump's, have estimated the total number of undocumented migrants at 11 million-12 million.
23% : This includes detailed discussions on the expansion of detention facilities currently run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which have already been filled by the mass arrests carried out under the Biden-Harris administration, particularly over the past year, as the Democrats sought to compete with Trump in carrying out repressive measures against migrants.ICE does not have the available personnel required to run facilities on the scale suggested by Trump and his top immigration adviser, Stephen Miller.
23% : Trump has also threatened to invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, which empowers the federal government to detain "enemy aliens" during a war, although Congress has not declared war on any foreign country since 1942, during World War II.
23% : The Insurrection Act is the 1807 law that Trump tried unsuccessfully to invoke in 2020 to send the Army into the streets to crush the mass protests over police violence following the public, and widely publicized, murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
10% : Fitton wrote that Trump is "prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program."

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