Trump is promising mass deportations. His own record shows it's not so simple
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
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Internal emails and documents from Trump's time in office — obtained by NPR through the Freedom of Information Act — shed light on how realistic his plan is to radically expand the United States' deportation system.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump won the White House the first time, in part by promising an aggressive crackdown on immigration. |
| 0:07.0 | Donald J Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our |
| 0:15.4 | country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. |
| 0:21.6 | A controversial Muslim travel ban went into effect within days of |
| 0:26.2 | Trump taking office. By the second year of his term, the Trump administration was separating |
| 0:31.2 | kids from parents at the border. It was part of the |
| 0:34.5 | administration's zero tolerance policy. Here was Homeland Security Secretary |
| 0:39.1 | Kirsten Nielsen in May 2018. Don't break the law. |
| 0:43.0 | I mean, that's why they're separated because they're breaking a law. |
| 0:46.6 | If Donald Trump gets back into the White House, he is promising to go even further on immigration. |
| 0:52.8 | Here he was speaking at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan last month. |
| 0:56.3 | As soon as I take the oath of office, we will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country. |
| 1:05.0 | Consider this. |
| 1:07.0 | Donald Trump wants to radically expand the US's deportation system, |
| 1:11.0 | but can it actually be done? The answers may lie in his first presidential |
| 1:16.8 | term. |
| 1:17.8 | From NPR, I'm Elsie Chang. |
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