Are Americans prepared to spend a trillion dollars to deport undocumented migrants?
by J.D. Tuccille
Reason.com
With the endorsement of a prominent Republican U.S. senator who was formerly critical of Donald Trump’s immigration hawkishness, the Republican party seems wedded this year to a scheme for mass deportation of undocumented migrants. As it embraces the draconian policy, the GOP also attaches itself to the huge price tag inevitably associated with expelling millions of people from the country.
Turnaround on Immigration
“If reelected, Donald Trump has said he’s willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military to deport the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country,” Kristen Welker asked of Sen. Marco Rubio (R–Fla.) on NBC News’s Meet the Press. “It would be the largest deportation operation in American history. Do you support that plan?”