Trump plans large detention centers for illegal immigrants before their expulsion

During his first term as president (2016-2020), Trump deported 1.5 million immigrants.

US President-elect Donald Trump is already making advanced plans to carry out his promise of large-scale deportations of illegal immigrants , starting with the construction or expansion of large centers where migrants will be taken before being expelled, according to CNN, citing several unnamed sources with knowledge of the plans.

One option is to expand the so-called county jails , the network said, without specifying where the new large centers would be, but said that Homeland Security officials have already identified several cities, presumably near the border with Mexico.

He also said there are plans to buy large quantities of beds or mattresses to place the migrants during the deportation process.

In order for the expulsions to take place, Trump will need to make mandatory the detention of undocumented immigrants, who are often released due to a lack of federal resources to maintain them. To do so, he is considering issuing an executive order.

Funding for the entire detention and removal plan now appears to be the main stumbling block, and CNN reports that Trump’s advisers are exploring two avenues: one, reallocating funds from other federal agencies, and two, declaring a “national emergency” to obtain funds from the Pentagon, something Trump already did in his first term.

So far, no member of Trump’s team has spoken openly about all these plans, and the spokeswoman for the transition team, who will be White House spokeswoman from January, Karoline Leavitt, limited herself to reminding CNN that Trump was elected with “a mandate to keep his campaign promises. And he will keep them.”

US President-elect Donald Trump is already making advanced plans to carry out his promise of large-scale deportations of illegal immigrants , starting with the construction or expansion of large centers where migrants will be taken before being expelled, according to CNN, citing several unnamed sources with knowledge of the plans.

One option is to expand the so-called county jails , the network said, without specifying where the new large centers would be, but said that Homeland Security officials have already identified several cities, presumably near the border with Mexico.

He also said there are plans to buy large quantities of beds or mattresses to place the migrants during the deportation process.

In order for the expulsions to take place, Trump will need to make mandatory the detention of undocumented immigrants, who are often released due to a lack of federal resources to maintain them. To do so, he is considering issuing an executive order.

Funding for the entire detention and removal plan now appears to be the main stumbling block, and CNN reports that Trump’s advisers are exploring two avenues: one, reallocating funds from other federal agencies, and two, declaring a “national emergency” to obtain funds from the Pentagon, something Trump already did in his first term.

So far, no member of Trump’s team has spoken openly about all these plans, and the spokeswoman for the transition team, who will be White House spokeswoman from January, Karoline Leavitt, limited herself to reminding CNN that Trump was elected with “a mandate to keep his campaign promises. And he will keep them.”

In his first term as president (2016-2020), Trump deported 1.5 million immigrants, a much smaller figure than the 2.9 million deported in Barack Obama’s first four years, and also lower than the 1.9 million in Obama’s second term, the network recalls.