Axios: Scoop: Inside Trump’s new plan to limit immigration

Among modern Presidents, Donald Trump took unprecedented number of immigration measures.  Stef W. Kight for Axios outlines the possibilities if the 2024 election returns President Trump to the White House, including

• “Ramp up ideological screening for people legally applying to come into the country. U.S. law has blocked communists from entering for decades, it just hasn’t been enforced. Trump wants to enforce it to reject applicants who are deemed “Marxists.”
• Send the Coast Guard and the Navy to form a blockade in the waters off the U.S. and Latin America to stop drug smuggling boats. It would be a significant step up Trump’s show of force in 2020, when he sent warships to the Caribbean as a warning to cartels.
• Expand Trump’s “Muslim ban” idea to block more people from certain countries from entering the U.S. As president he banned immigration from more than a dozen countries that are mostly Muslim or in Africa; President Biden rescinded that executive order.
• Designate drug cartels as “unlawful enemy combatants“ to allow the U.S. military to target them in Mexico. The U.S. has used that designation to justify long-term detentions of 9/11 suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
• Seek to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants. Trump considered this as president, but today’s conservative-leaning Supreme Court has given his team more confidence about taking on an inevitable legal fight.
• Extend Texas’ controversial floating barriers in the Rio Grande.
• Quickly deport migrant gang members, smugglers and other criminals, using an obscure section of the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts.
• Complete his border wall. Trump spent billions to put 452 miles of new fencing along the 1,954-mile southern border. Biden halted the project.”

Fasten your seatbelts!

KJ