What would Trump’s mass deportations really mean?
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🗓️ 22 October 2024
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Donald Trump is calling for mass deportations if he’s elected. USA TODAY national reporter Lauren Villagran breaks down the costs and logistical hurdles to his plan.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Sarah Gannum filling in for Taylor Wilson. Today is Tuesday |
| 0:16.1 | October 22nd, 2024. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:23.4 | Today, Trump calls for mass deportation if he's elected. |
| 0:27.4 | We break down the costs and logistical hurdles. |
| 0:30.8 | Plus another Trump lawsuit. |
| 0:33.0 | This time the Central Park 5 sues him for defamatory statements made during last month's presidential debate. |
| 0:39.0 | And birth control joins abortion as a controversial issue across several |
| 0:44.0 | conservative states. We are in the final two weeks until election day and |
| 0:50.0 | voters continue to say that one of the major issues they're considering is immigration reform, |
| 0:55.7 | which under a second Donald Trump presidency could look very different than it did under the first one. |
| 1:01.6 | USA Today National Reporter Lauren Vieagrin |
| 1:04.8 | breaks down his plan and how it might work. |
| 1:07.8 | Lauren, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:09.8 | Thanks, Sarah. |
| 1:10.6 | So Donald Trump has been a fair amount of both of his campaigns for president talking about immigration reform if he wins |
| 1:17.3 | Will things be different this time than they were the last time he was president? Well, we're going to have to see, but certainly the conditions are different. |
| 1:25.1 | You know, we know that the first time around in 2015 as he was campaigning, |
| 1:29.9 | he made immigration and deporting the nation's roughly 11 million unauthorized immigrants |
| 1:37.1 | a cornerstone of that campaign. |
| 1:39.5 | But he was stopped by numerous obstacles during his first administration. |
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