How Trump’s deportations will work

KERA's Think

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Society & Culture, 071003, Kera, Think, Krysboyd

4.8 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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President-elect Trump has promised mass deportations starting day one of his second term; how far will he really be able to take it? Edward Alden is a columnist at Foreign Policy, the Ross distinguished visiting professor at Western Washington University and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He joins guest host John McCaa to discuss this unprecedented effort to expel undocumented immigrants, how Trump might utilize the military, how the economy might be impacted and how this might shape immigration policy going forward. His article is “The Great Deportation of 2025.”

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0:45.6	Thank you. Friday, wherever you listen to podcasts. From KERA. in Dallas, this is Think. I'm John McKay and for Chris Boyd.
0:50.8	One of Donald Trump's central pledges in returning to the White House is the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants on an extraordinary scale, beyond anything we have seen in the past.
1:02.4	And if it takes place as promised, it is destined to reshape migration for decades ahead.
1:08.7	Columnist Edward Alden makes that argument in the great immigrant deportation
1:13.3	of 2025, which he wrote for Foreign Policy Magazine. He's also a senior fellow at the Council on
1:19.7	Foreign Relations, specializing in trade and immigration policy and border security. Among
1:25.4	his many articles and books, he has co-authored a new one when the world
1:29.2	closed its borders. Edward, welcome to think. Good to be with you, John. Thanks very much.
1:35.9	These words are unprecedented and unparalleled. They keep getting batted about regarding the incoming
1:42.4	president's border crackdown pledge. We have had some pretty
1:46.2	sizable deporting efforts in the past. What makes this promise so different, do you think?
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