“We are preparing for two things: First to defend ourselves and second to resist. We already have the experience of four years ago, so we do not doubt if he will do it, he has already proven it. He made 42 executive orders against migration, he strengthened the border, there are many things that they are already looking for how to do, and they are also putting the most radical people in charge of the sector,” says the Mexican born in Michoacán.
On his third path to the Presidency of the United States, Trump criticized the flexibility of the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, that “allowed 20 million illegal aliens to stampede into our country from all over the world.” Under his promise to “Make America Great Again,” Trump promised to implement a mass deportation plan, complete the border wall that borders Mexico, and it was recently reported that he plans to declare a national emergency to use the Army for deportations.
In the United States, there are around 11 million migrants without documents proving their regular stay, according to figures from the Department of Homeland Security, of which four out of 10 are Mexican.
“We are really super worried, we are preparing for a worst-case scenario with Trump.”
Artemio Arreola, Mexican living in the United States.
Implementing his proposal for mass deportations would have a high economic cost for Donald Trump’s administration: $88 billion, according to the report “Mass deportation: devastating costs for the United States, its budget and its economy,” carried out by the Council American Immigration. Of those almost 90,000 million dollars, 7,330 would only be to return to the more than 4 million Mexicans who live in that country.
But it seems that little or nothing will stop Trump.
“There are things that, without a doubt, he is going to do. Above all the immigration part, we can see it, based on what he has said in the campaign, also in the first appointments of his cabinet. All of this indicates that he is serious about migration,” says Pamela K. Starr, professor in the departments of Political Science and International Relations and Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California (USC).
