One of Donald Trump’s top advisers has revealed the crackdown on migrants that the former president will launch if voters grant him another seat in the White House in next year’s ballot.
Stephen Miller, a senior Trump adviser, says a second Trump administration would build more wall on the US-Mexico border, lengthen the floating barrier on the Rio Grande, and deploy a naval blockade against drug traffickers.
Speaking to Axios, Miller revealed other measures, including an extension of the so-called “Muslim ban” to arrivals from mostly Middle Eastern and African countries, and screening to prevent Marxists from entering the US.
The rollout comes after US Customs and Border Protection revealed on Friday that agents processed 183,000 migrants in July, a 33 percent increase from June, as illegal flows of people worry millions of voters.
“For those passionate about securing our immigration system… the first 100 days of the Trump administration will be pure bliss,” Miller told the online news outlet.
A second Trump administration would build more walls than last time
Trump plans to deploy the US military against Mexico’s heavily armed drug cartels
That period would be “followed by another four years of the hardest action imaginable,” he added.
While popular with many voters, the harsh immigration policy is alarming to some human rights groups and progressives, leading Republicans and Democrats to years of disagreement over how to fix what many call a “broken” system.
According to Miller, the policies of the second Trump administration would include:
- step up ideological screening for legal migrants and nix requests from anyone deemed “Marxist” – probably determined by scrutinizing social media accounts
- Deploy a Coast Guard and Navy blockade to stop drug smuggling boats from Latin America
- Revive and expand it ‘Muslim ban’ from the first government to block more people from mainly Middle Eastern and African countries
- Designate Mexico’s drug cartels as “illegitimate enemy combatants” and put the US Army against them
- Move to put an end to the birthright for children of undocumented migrants – potentially setting the stage for a battle in the conservatively charged Supreme Court
- Extend the floating barrier of buoys along the Rio Grande.
- Accelerate deportations of migrants with a criminal record
- Complete the border wall that Trump started, but current President Joe Biden stopped
- Create undocumented migrants ‘stay in Mexico’ while they wait for a court date.
- Make it harder for legal immigrants to enter the US – with stricter financial requirements and strong bonds to prevent visitors from staying too long
- Revive the Title 42 public health order to deport illegal migrants for non-COVID diseases
- Deport migrant children to combat the trafficking of minors
Americans have warmed to tough anti-migrant measures after years of record flows of undocumented migrants into the US, strained border services and cities like New York and Chicago.
Many of Miller’s policies are popular with American voters, according to polls conducted by DailyMail.com/TIPP.
Trump advisers like the buoys deployed by Texas and would extend the floating barrier
Though controversial, Texas Governor Gregg Abbot’s handcuffs are supported by most Americans, our poll shows
Once seen as extreme, the border wall is now a mainstream policy for American voters
Our polls of nearly 1,400 voters this month found that 52 percent are in favor of completing the barrier along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.
Another 51 percent of voters said they support the 300-foot floating buoy barrier that Texas Governor Gregg Abbot has erected along the Rio Grande to deter migrants.
Trump aide Stephen Miller
Meanwhile, a whopping 58 percent of American adults said drug smugglers and people should receive the death penalty — in another resounding endorsement of Trump’s hard-line immigration policy.
Still, some Trump policies for 2024 are less popular.
Only 39 percent of voters support ending the birthright, and 46 percent oppose ending the American tradition.
A second Trump administration would also have numerous opponents fighting against any immigration policy.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a policy chief for the American Immigration Council, which defends US immigration, said the policy was strict.
A Trump plan to end birthrights for undocumented migrants is less appealing to voters
A Coast Guard and Navy blockade should put an end to boats smuggling drugs from Latin America
US Customs and Border Protection processed 183,000 migrants in July, a 33 percent increase from June
Trump would “rush people through the system, deprive them of due process protections, eliminate any access to legal services and really transform this into an assembly line deportation machine,” he told Axios.
The Biden administration has already sued Texas for using shackles and barbed wire to deter migrants along the Rio Grande.
Part of Trump’s policies include using the Alien Enemies Act and other dated, oft-overlooked laws, which could open his crackdown to legal challenges.
More buoys and military deployment would undoubtedly worsen relations with Mexico.
Despite the criminal charges against him, Trump is the frontrunner to win the Republican Party’s nomination for the 2024 election, and polls show him a tie with Biden, his expected Democratic opponent.