“If Donald Trump sticks to the immigration pledges that helped drive his presidential election victory, he will begin a clampdown on illegal immigration that would be unprecedented in American history and would require an exorbitantly expensive — and logistically difficult — operation to remove millions from the country while fortifying the border,” the Washington Post reports.
“As a candidate, Trump made immigration one of his highest-profile issues, saying he’d create a ‘special deportation task force’ and build a ‘beautiful’ wall along a major part of the southern border with Mexico. But immigration experts say those promises, though popular among his base, pose major complications as Trump prepares for office.”
“Yet even with the potential difficulties, Trump will have the administrative tools to massively scale back the Obama administration’s efforts to shield millions of immigrants from deportation, former federal officials say. With the stroke of a pen, for example, Trump could reverse a program that has protected hundreds of thousands of people brought to the United States illegally as children — something he has vowed to do.”
