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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

Mass deportations, detention camps, troops on the street: Trump spells out migrant plan

a man in a suit points to a fence along a border
Donald Trump points to the border fence in San Luis, Arizona, on 23 June 2020. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Donald Trump is planning to unleash the biggest mass deportation of undocumented migrants in US history should he win re-election in November, involving legally questionable deployments of military and police units and the creation of vast detention camps along the southern border.

Trump has laid out his vision for a “record-setting deportation operation” in a series of rally speeches, newspaper articles and social media posts. He intends to move swiftly after inauguration day next January to stage mass roundups of immigrants across the country, conducting raids inside big cities where he would face certain Democratic opposition.

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