What Immigration Enforcement Look Like in a Second Trump Administration

Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti for the Washington Post preview immigration enforcement in the new Trump administration.  The mass removal campaign promised by Donald Trump is at the top of the agenda. 

We might see two former high level from Trump’s first administration in high profile immigration roles in the second administration.  Two possibilities are former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan, who recently promised the removal of entire families as an alternative to family separation on “60 Minutes, (and here), and Chad Wolf, who was acting homeland security secretary at the end of Trump’s first term.

Miroff and Sacchetti discussed possible resistance of immigrant rights advocates to the Trump immigration enforcement measures.  There is little doubt that litigation is on the horizon:  

“`As bad as the first Trump administration was for immigrants, we anticipate it will be much worse this time and are particularly concerned about the use of the military to round up immigrants,’” said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who challenged family-separation and other Trump policies in court. “`As always, we will go to court to challenge illegal policies, but it is equally essential that the public push back, as it did with family separation.’

`We have no choice other than to fight,’ Gelernt said.”

KJ