As thousands of Republican voters flocked to Milwaukee to officially declare former President Donald Trump as their nominee for the presidency, reporters and talking heads remain transfixed on what kind of vision Trump will lay out for a second administration.
Unfortunately, we already know.
Despite his best efforts to distance himself from Project 2025, Trump has made clear that his platform for a second turn as president will dismantle America's promise as a welcoming nation of possibility. No matter what he chooses to call it, he is committed to enacting disastrous immigration proposals that will set our country back for generations.
More Americans are learning about Project 2025, the 922-page far-right wish list authored by the Heritage Foundation and various Trump loyalists who either served in the Trump administration or aspire to work during a second term. It's a playbook that dramatically centralizes a president's executive power, dismantles regulatory agencies that safeguard Americans, and rolls back protections for civil and reproductive rights.
Specifically on immigration, Project 2025 promises to return to and expand Trump's worst policies on immigration.
On the first day of a new term, Donald Trump has promised to "begin the largest domestic deportation operation in the history of our country." This deportation effort—which Trump has explicitly compared to the shameful 1950s operation that removed Mexican immigrants,........