Michael Ian Black: When Trump Rounds Up Migrants, What Will It Look Like?
Felon-in-waiting Donald J. Trump, for all intents and purposes secured the Republican presidential nomination this Super Tuesday. As such, it’s time to turn our attention to what a second (or third, depending on if you believe the QAnon folks) Trump administration would look like, beginning on its all-important first day.
Trump has already promised to Newsmax’s Chris Salcedo that he will order mass deportations on Day One. If that sounds dictatorial to you, don’t worry; Trump also promised Sean Hannity that he will only be a dictator on Day One. After that, he said, “I’m not a dictator.”
So, if you take Trump at his word—and we’ve never been given any reason not to—he will only be a dictator for a single day. If that’s the case, it necessarily follows that the entire mass deportation of as many as 20 million people would all have to happen on the same day.
Let’s figure out how he’d get the job done.
To start, we’re going to need a lot of patriotic folks to break down doors, randomly fire into the wrong home, and generally terrify the nation. How many people will that require? Well, if we’ve got 10.5 million undocumented........© The Daily Beast
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