{"id":2239,"date":"2024-11-12T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/breaking-down-donald-trumps-deportation-agenda\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T17:48:06","slug":"breaking-down-donald-trumps-deportation-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/breaking-down-donald-trumps-deportation-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking down Donald Trump’s deportation agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A version of this <\/i>initially appeared<\/i><\/a> in The Recast, Blue Light News’s race and politics newsletter. <\/i><\/p>\n

Carlos Trujillo may not be a household name, but he was instrumental in helping President-elect Donald Trump hone his message and win a historic number of Latino voters last week. <\/p>\n

Trujillo, who\u2019s been a senior adviser to Trump since his 2016 presidential run and served in his first administration, believes the Republican’s decisive victory ushered in a mandate to implement far-reaching immigration reforms, including mass deportations. <\/p>\n

The son of immigrants who defected from Fidel Castro\u2019s communist Cuba, Trujillo applauds Trump\u2019s recent decision to name immigration hard-liners Stephen Miller and Tom Homan as deputy chief of staff for policy and border czar, respectively. And he believes they’ll bring back two of Trump\u2019s previous migration-deterrent policies: the so-called \u201csafe third country\u201d agreements<\/a> and the \u201cRemain in Mexico<\/a>\u201d program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose hires are excellent ones and are going to help carry out the vision more than 74 million Americans \u2014 including Hispanics \u2014 voted for,\u201d Trujillo told Blue Light News. <\/p>\n

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. <\/p>\n

The president-elect has selected Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to help implement his <\/b>mass deportation plans<\/b><\/a>. Can you explain how that’s going to be carried out, especially since the president-elect is suggesting there may be no price tag for the scale of it?<\/b><\/p>\n

So obviously, the price tag, I think it\u2019s less expensive to deport people who are in this country illegally \u2014 committing crimes \u2014 than it is to keep them.<\/p>\n

I worked with Stephen in the first Trump administration. Tom Homan has a spectacular reputation. And both are people who were very, very effective in curbing illegal migration.<\/p>\n

Stephen was essential in negotiating the \u201csafe third country\u201d agreements, the \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy \u2014 these were all issues that President Trump openly campaigned on, unlike his Democratic opponent who campaigned for sanctuary cities before flipping to saying she\u2019s going to be really tough on the border.<\/p>\n

Are you also angling for a position in the upcoming administration?<\/b><\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m helping Trump and the team through the transition process. But I\u2019m not committed to any position or even entering the administration. I\u2019m happy in the private sector.<\/p>\n

Democrats hammered the first Trump administration on the imagery of the government breaking up families and putting kids in cages, or rounding up people who haven\u2019t committed violent crimes.<\/b><\/p>\n

Are you concerned Trump\u2019s mass deportations plan is going to renew criticisms of family separation all over again?<\/b><\/p>\n

So just to clarify, the kids in cages started under the Obama administration<\/a>. President Trump has been very clear in that the first step is to remove criminals.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the 13,000 murderers<\/a>; I think that\u2019s a pretty good number of people we want to get out. There are over 600,000 people<\/a> who have [had contact with] law enforcement or have criminal records in this country. I think, obviously, the mass deportations should focus on those who are the most dangerous and most violent and pose the most risk to our country.<\/p>\n

Will this 600,000 be enough? My assumption is some will be looking for figures much higher than that. How do you balance a mass deportation plan with those who are stressing a humane approach to this?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure of the narrative that you\u2019re painting, that all these people are concerned. Were they concerned for the last four years when millions of people entered this country and showed up in cities that are completely overrun?<\/p>\n

There are entire hotels dedicated to migrant staffing across this country. There are veterans who are being displaced from their houses. I\u2019m not sure the narrative of \u201cwe\u2019re going to separate children\u201d is really an accurate narrative.<\/p>\n

Is Trump’s agenda going to include finishing the border wall too?<\/b><\/p>\n

Finishing the wall is very important, but I also think it\u2019s important to focus on all the great policies that the Trump administration advanced in the first term, including the \u201csafe third country agreements,\u201d \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d and Title 42 expulsions. Those are all important things I\u2019m sure will be implemented in some shape or form [again] to deal with the migratory crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A version of this initially appeared in The Recast, Blue Light News’s race and politics newsletter. Carlos Trujillo may not be a household name, but he was instrumental in helping President-elect Donald Trump hone his message and win a historic number of Latino voters last week. Trujillo, who\u2019s been a senior adviser to Trump since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}