“Trump’s proposal is a speech to voters; in practice, the immigration system is incapable of carrying out mass raids. The deportation, asylum and refugee processing systems have been completely disjointed for three or four decades; it is very dysfunctional for you to be able to carry out a mass deportation process,” he argues.
Participating in a special broadcast to analyze Trump’s speech accepting the Republican nomination for the White House, the expert stressed that carrying out a mass deportation such as the one proposed by the candidate requires having an efficient immigration system, with high levels of capacity, a lot of personnel and many resources.
“The U.S. immigration system has none of that,” he notes.
During the Republican Convention, when accepting the party’s nomination to seek the Presidency of the United States, Trump announced that the border wall will be finished and will carry out a mass deportation.
“The Republican platform promises to launch the largest deportation operation in the history of our country,” Trump said in front of hundreds of supporters.
Trump’s proposal comes after he reproached the current president, Joe Biden, for having put an end to measures that he implemented as president such as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) and Title 42which, he says, allowed him to have “a secure border.”
The coordinator of the Master’s in Migration Studies at the Ibero also explains that if the United States wants to carry out a “massive raid,” it will encounter the incompetence of its immigration system.
“You need specific procedures, one, to identify; two, to determine if that person is eligible to request asylum and refuge; three, to determine whether or not they stay; and four, to condemn them to deportation or not. In that sense, this takes so long, it can take months that multiplied and formed in a line would take not years but centuries,” he explains.
