Trump's Controversy: Immigration To The United States

[Last Name] 1Martez ChristianPraterGovernment6 December 2017 Abusing ImmigrationTrump has abused his power when it comes to immigration. Throughout his presidentialcampaign, Trump has sparked controversy after controversy withhis stated positions on immigration, American Muslims, torture, and the core First Amendmentprotections that define America. Taken together, his statements and policy proposalswould blatantly violate the inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution, federal andinternational law, and the basic norms of a free and decent society. He pledges to deport over 11 million undocumented immigrants, to ban Muslims from entering the United States, to surveil American Muslims and their houses of worship, to torture again, and to revise libel laws. Trump’s proposals taken together would violate the …show more content…
Repeatedly he pledged to deport within two years every undocumented person in the United States, a population of over 11 million people, according to the Pew Research Center. Trump told 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley that this massive round-up of undocumented immigrants would be carried out “in a very humane way, a very nice way.” Trump’s mass deportation scheme would mean arresting more than 15,000 people a day on immigration charges, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Undocumented immigrants are not readily identifiable as such, unless they come to the attention of the authorities. The vast majority
[Last Name] 2of noncitizens eventually removed are identified either through contact with the criminal justice system or are found and