Mass Deportation of Immigrants is Good for the Trump Brand
Even better for business
Issue #771 The Choice, Thursday, November 21, 2024
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The cruelty is the point, and it turns out pain (inflicted upon poor, non-white people) is good for business in the Trump world. Businesses like private prisons, in particular.
Trump’s promise to conduct massive deportation of illegal immigrants turned out to be one of the cornerstones of his campaign. This goes back to when he ordered Republicans in Congress to kill the bipartisan immigration bill, which conceded so many points to the Republicans for the sake of getting something passed that many Democrats either couldn’t support it outright or held their nose and closed their eyes. Trump killed the bill because he was worried that solving the problem at the border might deprive him of a winning campaign issue to help him stay out of jail. Oh, and also to win the election.
Now that he has won the election, one of Trump’s first acts to prove he is every bit as bad as he promised he would be was to choose Tom Homan to be his so-called border czar. I’m using the word ‘choose’ here instead of ‘nominate’ or ‘appoint’ because Trump isn’t President yet, so he can’t officially do either. Also, Trump has indicated that once he actually is sitting in the Big Boy chair, he expects his Republican underlings in the Senate to step aside and go into recess so that all of his nominees can be installed under cover of darkness without any pesky Senate confirmations, any vetting, or anything else that might stand in the way of his will. So far, however, even the underlings don’t seem to be agreeing to this demand in advance so we’ll see.
So. Tom Homan. Former ICE chief. This is the guy who told a conservative conference in July that he “will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen” when Trump returns to office. Trump returned to office, and now, Trump wants to give Homan the power to fulfill that promise, which began on Trump’s first day back. Fulfilling that promise will involve the deportation of anywhere from 15 to 20 million illegal immigrants, says Trump. Because that number is so high, however, there is no way the goal can be achieved with only 20,000 ICE agents, so Trump has promised to enlist the U.S. military to lend a hand. He has also suggested trying to force local police departments to be drafted. Guess we’ll see how that goes.
But meanwhile, the owners of - and investors in - private prisons are already positively giddy at the announcement. Because if Trump has better success with this promise than he did with his ill-fated promise to Build The Wall? Then, there will have to be somewhere to store all those illegal immigrants and keep them as miserable as possible until they are deported. And what better place than private prisons? It’s a win-win; Trump has somewhere to park his unwanted non-white people before getting rid of them while simultaneously enriching his wealthy (non-brown) friends. You gotta love it when a plan comes together! Of course, this particular plan also has the potential to torch the nation’s economy until it is little more than a smoking financial ruin.
“A new report from the American Immigration Council, an immigration rights research and policy firm, estimates that to deport even one million undocumented immigrants a year would cost over $88 billion dollars annually, for a total of $967.9 billion over more than ten years.”
But let’s not let math interfere with a good scam. Math, after all, is a plot hatched by the elites.