Although Trump has complained that the United States is overstretched in its foreign commitments
—such as its support for Ukraine and NATO allies
—he appears to have ample plans for #Latin #America.
Trump’s most frequently repeated plan for the region is to 💥deport millions of undocumented Latin Americans 💥from the United States.
He has called for deportations of all undocumented U.S. residents, ♦️estimated in 2022 by the Department of Homeland Security as 11 million people; ♦️as of 2021, that population included roughly 4 million Mexicans,
more than 2 million Central Americans,
and more than half a million people each from the Caribbean and South America, according to Pew.
Signs distributed at this week’s Republican National Convention said
🔥“Mass Deportation Now.”🔥
There are major legal and technical roadblocks to carrying out this sort of operation, immigration experts say.
For one, 🔸deportations generally necessitate court proceedings in an already overwhelmed immigration court system.
🔸They also require cooperation from origin countries.
But Trump advisor #Stephen #Miller has said the former president would unleash ♦️“the vast arsenal of federal powers”
♦️to overcome normal legal principles such as due process.
Being on the receiving end of mass deportations could be highly destabilizing for #labor #markets in Latin American countries,
worsening the conditions that prompted some people to emigrate in the first place.
🔹And lack of decent work could prompt more people to seek out organized criminal groups
—which Trump has pledged to combat with #military #force.
While Trump was talked down during his first term from using military force both in Mexico and Venezuela by then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper,
his selection of #Vance as his running mate suggests that the second-term team assembled by Trump might provide less pushback.
🔥Vance called for the president to “use the power of the U.S. military to go after these drug cartels” 🔥in an interview with NBC News that sounded alarm in Mexico.
⭐️Trump has also pledged 10 percent #tariffs on all worldwide imports.
👉If he makes good on that promise, it would deeply impact trade with the region.
And one of Trump’s former Latin America advisors, #Maurício #Claver-#Carone, wrote in Americas Quarterly this week that
a second Trump administration should #deprioritize support for regional multilateral development banks, such as the Washington-based Inter-American Development Bank,
in favor of bilateral deals with countries that are “friendly” to the United States.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/07/19/trump-gop-vance-latin-america-deportation-tarriffs-cartels-military-bolsonaro-stabbing/
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