Former US President Donald Trump is planning to restrict immigration and has drafted sweeping changes to policies if reelected for a second term. In his first term, the former president implemented hardline immigration policies. The Trump immigration plan that featured prominently in his first term is likely to make a comeback should the Republican presidential hopeful get another nod to lead again.
Tough times await undocumented immigrants should Trump find his way back to the Oval Office. On his campaign trail, Trump is vocal about his plans to end illegal immigration. His camp believes President Joe Biden allowed an influx of illegal migrants to enter the country.
The new Trump Immigration plan
Donald Trump during a past campaign
The former president is planning raids, roundups of people, and their detention in large camps as part of an effort to rid the country of undocumented immigrants. Reports by CNN indicate that the advisors of the former president have endorsed the idea should he regain power. According to the reports, Trump also plans to reintroduce a ban his administration adopted during his first term. The controversial policy barred people from Muslim-majority countries from entering the US.
While in his first term, Trump initiated the construction of the US-Mexico border wall to bar migrants from entering the US, the sweeping changes are also proposing the construction of detention camps, according to media reports. In his campaigns, Trump has launched a major onslaught on immigration. He believes unchecked immigration is to blame for some of the woes dragging the US backward.
Reports by the New York Times indicate the new Trump Immigration plan is bent towards strengthening some of the policies that many people considered draconian during his first term. The radical shift is likely to see many families and people detained in large camps as Federal Officials process their deportation documentation.
How Trump handled immigration in his first term
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump who is seeking for a second term
The former US president was brutal in his handling of immigration. In 2020, his administration invoked Title 42 as a public health measure. The impact of the policy was swift after it allowed US authorities to swiftly remove immigrants at the border. The policy sparked protests from a number of human rights groups in the US who believed it violated human rights.
In 2019, the Trump administration also adopted the Migrant Protection Protocol. Under the policy about 70,000 Mexicans were sent back to Mexico where they would wait for their asylum hearings. READ ALSO: Cherelle Parker becomes the first black woman elected as mayor of Philadelphia
How Trump’s immigration plan differs from Biden’s policies
President Joe Biden gifts an African-American child a present
Biden, the current president Trump hopes to reduce to a one-term Head of State has taken a different approach to immigration. In his short stint as the leader of the world’s global power, Biden embraced policies that opened a route for legal immigration. Data from the Pew Research Center reports that Biden is keen on giving unauthorized legal immigrants a pathway to become US citizens. This is a policy that is different from Trump’s hardline position. Biden’s more humane approach has also received its share of criticisms from people who believe it is a disastrous path.