With A Second Term, Trump Would Take His Immigration Crackdown Further

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🗓️ 11 February 2024

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Summary

Immigration is one of the main things Americans will be voting on in November. And many are currently unhappy with the situation at the US Southern Border, which is widely described as a crisis.

As Donald Trump runs for another term, he's hoping to leverage that discontent just as he did in 2016.

An across-the-board crackdown on immigration was one of the signature policies of the Trump presidency. In a second term, he's promising to go even further.

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0:00.0	Donald Trump was barely 200 words into the speech launching his first bid for the White House
0:06.0	when he turned to an idea that would become central to his presidency.
0:10.0	The US has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.
0:18.0	Immigration.
0:19.0	When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not
0:25.0	sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're
0:30.8	bringing those problems with us.
0:33.0	They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists.
0:38.0	Throughout his campaign, Trump repeatedly equated immigrants to criminals.
0:43.6	And he pledged a crackdown on illegal immigration
0:46.2	at the southern border, which of course
0:48.0	gave birth to his signature slogan.
0:50.2	Build that wall.
0:51.7	Build that wall. Build that wall.
0:53.0	Build that wall.
0:54.0	But Trump also ran on sharp cuts to legal immigration,
0:58.0	cuts that would fundamentally reshape U.S. immigration policy
1:02.0	and potentially violate its Constitution.
1:04.0	Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United
1:10.6	States until our country's representatives can figure out what the
1:17.1	hell is going on. And when Trump won the presidency he got to work quickly to
1:22.3	implement them.
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