The former president reportedly plans on utilizing the military to enforce immigration policies and erecting deportation camps along the border.

Donald Trump isnā€™t only looking to reinstate the extreme, anti-immigration policies of his first term if he wins in November; he is seeking to take things a step further. ā€œWe have to do something about it,ā€ Trump told Fox Newsā€™ Laura Ingraham in a town hall Tuesday, repeating his ugly 2015 claim that other countries are ā€œnot sending their finestā€ to the United States. ā€œWe have the worst border in the history of the world.ā€

Claiming that countries are ā€œemptying out their prisonsā€ into the U.S., Trump reiterated his plans to carry out mass deportations, which he has promised on the campaign trail would be the ā€œlargestā€ in American history. Of course, he was vague on the details, telling Ingraham that he would ā€œget the bad ones out first,ā€ which heā€™d find using ā€œlocal police.ā€

Nevertheless, the remarks provided yet another glimpse into the radical border policies heā€™d pursue in a second termā€”which, as the Washington Post reported Wednesday, could include mobilizing the military for immigration enforcement and the establishment of deportation camps along the border. ā€œAmericans can expect that immediately upon President Trumpā€™s return to the Oval Office, he will restore all of his prior policies, implement brand new crackdowns that will send shock waves to all the worldā€™s criminal smugglers, and marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation in American history,ā€ campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told the outlet. Undocumented immigrants ā€œshould not get comfortable,ā€ she added, ā€œbecause very soon they will be going home.ā€

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    Biden isnā€™t committing genocide though, neither is the US. Israel is doing it. The US has prior agreements to support its allies and a vested interest in protecting trade in the area, but it is not actively participating in Israelā€™s genocide. Claiming the US is responsible for Israelā€™s actions is like claiming the US is responsible for Saudi Arabiaā€™s blockade and subsequent famine in Yemen, or like claiming NATO is responsible for the war in Ukraine.

    Itā€™s a common tactic of fascist communist regimes to try and bring the US or NATO into things theyā€™re only tangentally related to, when ironically they are no more related than the accusers.

    Yes, Biden and the US should be taking a harder stance against Israel, but be careful not to devolve it into fascist talking points.

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      Dude. If you give a guy a missile and he drops it on civilians, then asks for more missilesā€¦ā€¦ and then you give him more missiles.

      You are the one committing genocide.

      Biden and the United States is engaged in genocide. If you believe otherwise you are not living in reality.

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          While I do have a few friends who are trans, I donā€™t know enough about the issue to comment very much.

          I do know the republicans are bigoted towards trans, same with many religious groups, and that trans are targets of crime way more often than other groupsā€¦.

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          The United States is engaged in multiple genocides.

          I would argue instead that while genocide is happening in the US, that doesnā€™t mean it is directly enacted by the US government, ie the White House.

          Meanwhile, under Trump, ICE were actively perfoming involuntary hysterectomies on immigrant detainees - a textbook form of genocide by a Federal agency directed by the White House.

          The US is quircky in that there are many layers of government. Certain layers are indeed genocidal, but theyā€™re not in charge of the entire country. The US government is in charge of the country, State governments are a lower authority.