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Americans can expect a 15-million-person deportation operation and implementation of programs designed to monitor women who violate abortion bans if Donald Trump wins another White House term in 2024.
Trump is ready to reshape American policy and detailed in interviews with TIME Magazine what some of these sweeping overhauls would include.
In a wide-ranging interview at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida on April 12, the former president confirmed he would use detention camps to house illegal immigrants during deportation efforts.
He also didn't rule out deploying the military to round up the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the country. As of January 2022, the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. was estimated to stand at 11.35 million.
Trump has repeatedly said he would take aggressive actions to address the border issue on Day One of a second term after President Joe Biden reversed almost all of his policies and plunged the country into an all-out illegal immigration crisis.
Donald Trump sat down for a wide-ranging interview with TIME Magazine detailing what Americans can expect 'if he wins' another term in the White House in 2024
His proposals would include tapping local law enforcement, National Guard and, if necessary, members of the U.S. Military to round up illegal immigrants for deportation.
TIME National Politics Reporter Eric Cortellessa asked Trump if he would override the Posse Comitatus Act, which states the U.S. military cannot be deployed against civilians.
'Well, these aren't civilians,' the former president replied. 'These are people that aren't legally in our country. This is an invasion of our country. An invasion like probably no country has ever seen before.'
'They're coming in by the millions. I believe we have 15 million now. And I think you'll have 20 million by the time this ends,' Trump predicted. 'And that's bigger than almost every state.'
He also said it isn't likely he would have to house these immigrants in detention camps because he plans to deport them swiftly – but he didn't rule out building more holding centers if needed during the operation.
'No, I would not rule out anything,' Trump said. 'But there wouldn't be that much of a need for them [detention camps], because of the fact that we're going to be moving them out. We're going to bring them back from where they came.'
Since Biden took office, the U.S. has seen record-high numbers of illegal border crossings.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has apprehended more than 7.6 million migrants illegally crossing the southern border – the majority of which are traveling from Central and South American countries in efforts to claim asylum in the U.S.
Trump took a rather luke-warm position on abortion earlier this month when he released a video claiming he does not support a federal-level ban because the issue should be decided by individual states.
But he wouldn't say one way or the other if he would veto a bill on a federal abortion ban if it came across his desk in a second term and said it's highly unlikely any sort of legislation on this matter would make it to his desk because it would require 60 votes in the Senate.
Trump didn't rule out deploying the military to round up millions of illegal immigrants in a massive deportation effort to remove those living in the U.S. without documentation
It was estimated in January 2022 that more than 11 million illegal immigrants were living in the U.S. Trump predicts that has now reached 15 million under Biden's border crisis. Pictured: Asylum-seekers line-up near the southern border after crossing illegally from Mexico into Texas
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