Fifteen Minutes on ICE’s Mass Deportation Agenda

David J. Bier

On June 26, the National Foundation for American Policy and the Cato Institute hosted a briefing for congressional staffers. I detailed how the Trump administration is carrying out its mass deportation agenda. Here’s the four-part plan I discussed:

1. Strip people of their legal status, legal protection, and citizenship.
2. Arrest based on convenience, not threat, and use of profiling.
3. Deny due process and judicial review of deportation plans.
4. Divert all governmental resources to this agenda.

Note that this was before the Supreme Court’s ruling in the birthright citizenship case, which has eroded the courts’ ability to stop violations of our rights with nationwide injunctions and could make it vastly more difficult to prove our citizenship going forward.

Stuart Anderson, executive director of the National Foundation for American Policy, explained the threats that the administration poses to legal immigration. His main point is that the Trump administration is massively restricting legal immigration, and again, this was before the news about further limits on stay for international students from this weekend.

You can watch the full event with questions and answers below: