Donald Trump is ramping up calls to carry out mass deportations of immigrants if he wins a return to the White House, offering new details about his plans in the final weeks of his campaign.
Trump aims to start by targeting gang and cartel members, particularly those belonging to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuela-based group the US government has designated as a transnational criminal organization. More broadly, the former president’s campaign pledges to launch “the largest deportation operation in American history.”
“We will send elite squads of ICE, Border Patrol, and federal law enforcement to hunt down, arrest and deport ...