President-elect Donald Trump has an array of policy initiatives on immigration he could execute on his first day back in the White House, although the full implementation of his campaign promises would have to come later in the administration and may be constrained under the law.
Mass deportation of undocumented immigrants was a key component of Trump’s vision for reversing the tide on immigration after millions of migrants entered the United States during the Biden administration.
Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for the Trump campaign, said in a Fox News interview that Trump’s win “gives him a mandate to govern as he campaigned, to deliver on the promises that he made, which include, on Day 1, launching the largest mass deportation operation of illegal immigrants that Kamala Harris has allowed into this country.”
