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immigration is a red herring issue, just a vote winner. he'll deport a few hundred people and then pretend he solved it so he can forget about the whole thing.

Delusional, hypocritical lefties. Deporting illegal immigrants is like driving people trespassers in our houses

Yes the immigrants must GO. They are illegal, some are criminal immigrants and they are killing Americans. The immigrants are draining our resources while Americans or having to do without. We have LAWS on immigration and they MUST be followed. NO exceptions! Our economy is terrible and people are struggling to buy groceries or get Meds. We have poor/middle class people suffering because of the Biden/Harris administration. There will be no assault - ya'll are comical. WE have people here at CNN that don't have clue but yet tell everybody what needs to be done. The bottom line is - Donald Trump is our president and he will make the decision and will handle in a professional manner the illegal immigration problem. Show President Trump some respect. I was raised to respect your elders - what has happened to that? Ya'll sit back watch - don't' worry about immigration and watch a pro git er done. God Bless the USA..........

NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Despite all the rhetoric on immigration, the truth is that Republicans love slave labor and that's why they have scuttled efforts whenever it came to actually halt illegal immigration. \nIt is also why they are opposed to abortion, homosexuality, contraception, sex education, education in general - because none of these activities add to the population. Educated people tend to have fewer children. Uneducated people will have more children, will be more economically oppressed, and are less aware of their rights as citizens.

Economic indicators say the economy was good. The economy and GDP grew, but the working class didn’t think so. Well, when the number of illegal immigrants per year far exceeds the number of new jobs per year, then the wages of the working class people will not keep up with inflation. Under Biden, the new jobs each year was an average of 1.2 million, but the number of illegal immigrants coming in looking for jobs was over 2 million people. For comparison, under Obama illegal immigration was just 300-400K per year. So as you can now see, the border crisis was a much bigger issue than the Democrats cared to admit.

The American people have spoken get EVERY illegal out of this country ASAP then when we get our house in order and put AMERICANS FIRST we can start accepting LEGAL immigrants it’s very simple

Illegal immigrants can do the right thing and start leaving now. And everyone responsible for allowing them in needs to pay restitution back to the American people

Why are democratic governors and mayors trying to keep illegal immigrants, who have committed violent crimes against American women ,children and men from being deported? Why do they want these people to stay and continue to commit crimes against American citizens? Why continue to destroy America?

Same People who live in Gated Communities, and who do not Allow poor people to Live in their Big Homes Permanently, are the Same People who want to Flood Poor communities around America with Immigrants from Third world Countries.\nTheir Logic Borders Only for Us who Live in Gated Communities, and for everybody else specially you peasants you have to live with Third world Immigrants and enjoy Diversity.

Being respectful really you’re gonna throw out all these immigrants that do the crops so does that mean you Americans will roll up your sleeves and start doing the job that they were doing I don’t think so cause the majority of these people they’re rather go ahead and go on welfare than they actually really do a job and you know that’s a fact and that’s very true. Look at the unemployment.

This is bs. There are many people that voted for Trump that is against mass deportation of law abiding illegal immigrants, but are for deporting violent criminals and securing the border and keeping illegal immigration out. What about the dreamers? They should be exempt from deportation. They speak English, they've assimilated into American culture, they own businesses and most importantly, being deported back to Mexico is technically being deported to a foreign country they have never lived in.

What a fatuous policy proposal. If this immigration policy happens, every American will regret voting for Trump. The loss of revenue from thousands of these people will cost the United States economically and socially. It's unfathomable how those who voted for Trump don't understand economics!

How can it be controversial to want to get rid of illegal immigrants? People who literally broke the law coming here??? If Americans break the law we go to jail and can’t work and are a cost in the average tax payer by being in jail but they got no issue locking us up. But how dare we expect the same standard is held to NON citizens in this country.

I don’t understand how the same people demanding reparations for descendants of slaves condone taking advantage of illegal immigrants for cheap sweat shop labor with no benefits or insurance. All of you businesses owners creating “success” on margins built on illegal immigration deserve a reality check.

Correction: Millions of people ❌ Millions of immigrants ❌ Millions of ILEGAL immigrants ✅

THIS IS SO SAD, NOBODY IS THINKING ABOUT THOSE KIDS!! MAJOR COMPANY CLOSURES! LAYOFFS, BUT THE IMMIGRANTS VOTED HIM IN!! This is going to be a mess, people will die!

We the people did NOT send a mandate to remove undocumented immigrants.\nFACTS MATTER\nExit polling shows that:\n55% wanted undocumented immigrants to have a path to citizenship\n36% want all undocumented immigrants removed immediately\nDONT TELL US WHAT WE SAID\nEven more to the point there are at least 335m Americans\n1/5 of them were able to and voted for trump, 1/5 of them voted for Harris, and 1/5 did not vote. The other 2/5th weren't eligible to vote\nIf you want to talk about a MANDATE tell us why trump got 2% fewer votes than he did in 2020\n20% of Americans do not a MORAL mandate form

People are gonna need clarification on the deportation of illegal Immigrants. Because she asked him specifically if legal immigrants will be included and he purposely did not answer. They want to revoke birthright citizenship. what's does this mean in very specific terms? you will deport anyone who was born in US to a country they never lived in before ? make it make sense!

15 million illegal immigrants can into the US under joe biden? That's bullshit. That's like saying there was no illegal crossing under Trump. What even crazier is most Americans those that say cost was the biggest issue will be shocked when the chickens to factory have to pay $20 an hour and the cost is passed on. Must people ignore the workers in the hotels or in the back of the kitchens, landscaping etc and would not be happy working for those wages. These people live a life most Americans could not fathom. Let's see how that goes.

We must hold those foreign nationals who violated America’s immigration law accountable. Our immigration and border security law was largely written by our, Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy. He promised Americans said if his immigration law was enacted into law we would no longer need amnesty for those in the country illegally, and our borders would be secure. As Democrats, we must keep the promise made to the American people by the late senator Ted Kennedy.

People don't seem to understand that if you come into the country ILEGALLY (which is a crime), you will be deported. People who immigrate the right way, waiting for green cards and applying for citizenship, they will be fine.

The fact that there people in this comment section against this shit to get illegal immigrants out of this country is ridiculous but that’s the problem with some of you people too damn nice

All illegal immigrants must be out from USA. Special illegal Bangladeshi people ,also stop paying food stamps.

These so called immigrants have NO idea how their decision will effect OTHER Latinos in America. They don’t see the bigger picture. \nAnd Trump in the White House will hit the finances. Just wait and see. Their taxes will go up. Gas will go up. Want to come which will NOT e good for ALL Americans. Time will tell people. Remember history DOES repeat itself.

Immigration and citizenship is theft of sovereign right of people the only Americans . God makes an American a government of theives makes theives.

Alex Garland’s Civil War posed the question: “What KIND of American are you?”\nIf Trump’s wannabe Brown shirts realise expelling immigrants isn’t fixing the price hikes Putin’s war and COVID and now Middle East tensions have foisted upon the entire globe , do these people imagine it won’t be them that get pointed at next?\nGot to feel bad for them because MAGA really doesn’t give one wafer thin sliver of a $#1t about them

These people are selfish! The immigrants who founded this country, definitely went back and got their homies! You dig a hole for one, you better dig two.

And still there is no actual problem with immigrants. They pay in more than they cost.\n\nWeird how people think they cost too much, but will happily cheer for wasting millions times that much on pointless walls and deportations.\n\nThen the labor market will collapse, Americans can't work as hard as immigrants! See that every single day, just no actual problems with immigrants as a whole.\n\nThe power of churches and television, folks.

Yet he made it difficult to get citizenship for those who want it…but will deport them even while waiting for an approval. We have criminals here too. Stop using ‘immigration’ as a political stunt…these are innocent people. United States is built on immigration!\n\nWhy not help those countries who are suffering?, god knows we have a lot of money. Yet we will only help when they are in their own country, but be degraded if coming to the US!

Thank you American citizen for voting president Trump. Immigration is such a big problem. Amsterdam had its first pogrom 60 years after Anne Frank was murdered. Initiated by people Holland welcomes as 'refugees'. From hellhole and 'European' capital Brussels in Belgium.

It was announced today on the news that the Trump initiative to deport all illegal immigrants will cost up to $1 trillion dollars. That’s a lot of moolah. Which will come out of our taxes. And the tariffs that he went on and on about. Companies aren’t giving out bonuses to workers for end of year. Because they have to save money now because Trump will impose tariffs on incoming goods. The workers didn’t understand they assumed the cost would be paid by importers. In reality, it will trickled down to American consumers who have to pay for goods. Economists have been saying during the election this is a bad idea.Trump tried to do it the last time he was in office and it didn’t work. So people be aware you think you can’t afford things now wait you won’t be able to afford anything. PS the government has nothing to do with price gouging for food and they don’t set the price for gasoline or electricity, etc. ????

Is this guy talking about immigrants or illegal immigrants? . it that trump said that he likes people coming into the country except those who are here illegally , we do love people come to our country too but much be legally if you are come here illegally just get the hell out . That is what the plan for those illegal immigration you have ears so you much hear the world ILLEGAL. We do care about immigration we jusg don't care about those illegal immigration that all .

There was a bi partisan bill to provide all the resources that also include the hiring of border officers. The convicted felon had Johnson and other republican cronies kill the bill. He tapped into people's hate and manufactured fears about immigrants.

unbelievable!!! The man is a convicted felon, who said out his own mouth. He was gonna overthrow the government. It’s already been 500 years man. They still haven’t given the people who built this country anything what makes you think they’re gonna give you anything now! Unbelievable! Only in America!!!? wow!!!!!!!’ oh by the way, are you Trump people who want jobs that are already here you’re just not looking for the people that you’re trying to replace just keep one thing in mind when you replace those people pretty soon you’re worn out they’re gonna be replacing you too with another immigrant who wants your lifestyle and what you have they don’t want to give the people who are native here born here live here because they don’t want it. The land already belong to the natives and they took it and you wanna migrate over here and think you’re getting something better.

Thinking if they stop spending money on immigrants the govt will spend money on the people instead. No. The Gop will be cutting taxes and not investing in any infrastructure or social spending.\n\nThey literally forgot that cuban refugees received a lot of help when they came over in boats. They got theirs.

3 lakh kam hain ? Why do you expect them to support crores of immigrants from india when we have not been able to provide living standards for people

Trump wants to end the present practice of bringing one's family to the USA. The Cuban woman with the MAGA hat doesn't give a shit about other people as long as she is ok. These are truly ignorant immigrants.

I think it is not people it is illegal immigrants ... There is a difference ....and not all immigrant - only illegal waiting in the border States

Itll be nice to have things for american citizens once again and nkt helping people who didnt earn nor deserve it and come to this country and rip off and free load and talk down on being here bc real immigrants who came here legally most agree this is indeed the best country in the world and opportunity and as a person of color making things happen instead of making excuses the dems downing of the american peopel got old of vote for me because we're the way is dead the in last 16 years 12 of those years have been ran by dems and only gotten worse as the year goes on im a pround California born and raised but left their bc of how bad its gotten happy where im at for sure god bless america and trump MAGA ?

Lets go beyond the immigration status of these workers. That has been talked about endlessly. The US economy would take a hit if this deportation plan goes through. These workers are critical in many sectors: construction, agriculture, service, tourism etc etc. When people call for deportng workers on this scale, it really is a case of careful what you wish for

I wonder if people actually believe that legal immigrants won't also be swept up in this huge deportation.

Ahhhhhhh, your life isn't gonna be better. Not only are you an immigrant, you're a woman. Geeez you people just don't get it. All he care about is himself. Ya'll are gonna be crying in 6 months or maybe sooner.

The only people in the United States who are not immigrants or descendants of immigrants are Native American Indians. So it's the height of hypocrisy and arrogance for these people to whine against immigrants. We also have a law that justly provides safe harbor for immigrants seeking refugee protection because they are fleeing their country of origin due to persecution, violence, victimization, etc. It is morally correct to receive them here without any mistreatment or demonization. It is prejudicial, inhumane, and unlawful to turn them away or deport them. Is the administrative system and process inefficient or faulty? YES, obviously. That's not an excuse to be derelict in our duty. Our obligation is to fix whatever is lacking or broken in our system, so that it functions properly, fairly, and rapidly, for anyone seeking either asylum, or ordinary immigration processing and approval.

This guy is an idiot. The same policy with these immigrants, like the Haitians, the Trump administration also had them, but he had these knuckleheads believe and they was here illegal, and I'm talking Ohio, and no one is being put up in luxuries, hotels, a lot of veterans are sleeping under the bridge, and Most of the ones people on their birds are dealing with mental issues. I was dealing with you depression, I'm PTSD myself. He played another con game on america again

It’s funny that she says “ take our country back” when the majority of white people don’t want her here whether she’s here legally or not l. they don’t like the color of her skin, her accent, nothing. If she got into an argument with some white guy at the local gas station, he would yell at her to go back to her country.. He would not care if she had papers or not. This is about racism, not immigration. DUH.

I am sick to death of media cherry picking facts they want to share. Oh poor immigrants. I am sorry, if this harsh but America can't fix the world and we aren't responsible for those from other countries. It really annoys me that all we hear is poor immigrants and immigrants rights. Sice Biden has taken office the housing crisis has gotten out of the control. Why? Simple math, you move in billions of people, equal population what you already have, but can't increase housing, they have to go somewhere. With the government helping migraints, more is going to them than our own. What is happening is they are pushing out people in migraint held cities and displacing existing residents. So those disbled , elderly, veterans and drug addicted people who are being displaced are being forced to smaller communities that don't have the infrastructure in place to cope with so many displaced people. Then you end up with a huge issue of Homeless people trying to live in Tents in the middle of winter. j You have a vast number of elderly women taking to van life because they can't afford to live any other way. Would you like to your Grandma living in Van, constantly on the go? YOu are being UNAmerican in your news reporting, when you fail to give fair reporting and do equal amount of investigating into who this actually affects amount the American people. Far as I am concerned you need to be shut down, because you are enemy of the US.

*Obama was 'Deporter-in- Chief remember? He sent back 3-Million illegal immigrants! As Trump rounds people up, millions will self-deport!*

It’s very clear that Trump will tighten the rules in US, and close their borders. Then all scrap people, refugees, asylum seekers, homeless, illegal, terrorist people will land up in Canada because our immigration rules are so weak, border security is so weak, everything is weak , policies are worst. And above all we have worse politicians Traitor Trudeau and Terrorist Jagmeet. It’s all happening because of these two rascals ! Canada is becoming like a third world country

It’s very clear that Trump will tighten the rules in US, and close their borders. Then all scrap people, refugees, asylum seekers, homeless, illegal, terrorist people will land up in Canada because our immigration rules are so weak, border security is so weak, everything is weak , policies are worst. And above all we have worse politicians Traitor Trudeau and Terrorist Jagmeet. It’s all happening because of these two rascals ! Canada is becoming like a third world country

What did Trump accomplish on immigration in four years? No immigration legislation passed, no border fence built like he promised, no improvement to the long legal process of accepting/rejecting people, and no mass deportations.... He did nothing then and he will do nothing for the next four years. Gullible people.