{"id":1048032,"date":"2024-09-10T21:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T01:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048032"},"modified":"2024-09-10T21:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T01:40:16","slug":"trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-tanking-a-bipartisan-border-security-deal-and-reinstating-cruel-family-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-tanking-a-bipartisan-border-security-deal-and-reinstating-cruel-family-separation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Vance Project 2025 Agenda: Tanking a Bipartisan Border Security Deal and Reinstating Cruel Family Separation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/donald-trump-has-an-undeniably-trump-driven-project-2025-agenda\/\"><em>Reminder<\/em><\/a><em>: No matter what Trump says, Project 2025 is an \u201cundeniably Trump-driven operation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>REMINDER: Trump directed Republicans to tank the bipartisan border deal and do nothing to improve border security this year, and his MAGA minions fell in line.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/07\/briefing\/republican-border-bill-ukraine.html\">New York Times<\/a>: <strong>\u201cRepublicans Against Border Enforcement\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/01\/29\/trump-republicans-border-deal-senate-immigration\">Axios<\/a>: <strong>\u201cTrump, House Republicans plot to kill border deal\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2024\/2\/7\/24064001\/border-crisis-immigration-reality-explained-mayorkas-impeachment\">Vox<\/a>: \u201cTrump made this clear when he reportedly urged Republicans in Congress to turn against the bipartisan Senate border security bill scheduled for a vote Wednesday so that he could <strong>keep the issue alive through the presidential election.<\/strong> His supporters have largely fallen in line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/06\/politics\/republican-opposition-senate-border-bill\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: <strong>\u201cTrump, who is hoping to make immigration a key plank of his presidential campaign, has suggested on Truth Social that approving additional resources for the border would make Republicans \u2018look bad.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/border-patrol-supports-immigration-reform-bill-republicans-1234962111\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>: <strong>\u201cBorder Patrol Supports \u2018Strong\u2019 Immigration Deal. Republicans Don\u2019t Care\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BidenHQ\/status\/1754942810103415019?s=20\">Trump<\/a>: <strong>\u201cPlease blame it on me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BidenHQ\/status\/1754967724344676446?s=20\">Trump<\/a>: <strong>\u201cI think [Republicans] are making a terrible mistake if they vote for the bill.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/06\/politics\/trump-republicans-immigration\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: <strong>\u201cThe border compromise would represent a dramatic change of immigration law on lines many Republicans have long supported.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FACT: The Trump-Vance ticket and their Project 2025 allies are pushing an extreme and cruel immigration agenda that includes ripping away children from their parents, rounding up people into detention camps, and using the military to carry out mass deportations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html\">New York Times<\/a>: <strong>\u201cSweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump\u2019s 2025 Immigration Plans\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo ease the strain on ICE detention facilities, <strong>Mr. Trump wants to build huge camps to detain people<\/strong> while their cases are processed and they await deportation flights. And to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, <strong>Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget<\/strong>, as he did in his first term to spend more on a border wall than Congress had authorized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSuch camps could also enable the government to speed up the pace and volume of deportations of undocumented people who have lived in the United States for years and so are not subject to fast-track removal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/11\/11\/biden-campaign-slams-extreme-and-racist-trump-immigration-plans-00126712\">Politico<\/a>: \u201cIf he wins the 2024 election, <strong>Trump intends to reimplement many of his first-term policies, including the so-called Muslim ban and the use of Title 42 to turn away asylum seekers.<\/strong> He also wants to deport migrants by the millions per year, detaining them in large camps while they await expulsion\u2026 The former president further wants to end birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cStephen Miller, a senior aide who crafted many of Trump\u2019s first-term policies, is once again heavily involved in the planning.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/11\/11\/politics\/trump-stephen-miller-immigration-detention-deportation\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump plots mass detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants should he regain power\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/24080265\/trump-immigration-policies-2024\">Vox<\/a>: <strong>\u201cTrump\u2019s immigration policies are his old ones \u2014 but worse\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FACT: Trump\u2019s inner orbit of MAGA extremists includes Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, architects of Trump\u2019s cruel family separation policy who have ties to Project 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/politics\/heritage-foundation-2025-donald-trump\">The Week<\/a>: <strong>\u201cFormer Trump staffers involved with Project 2025 include <\/strong>former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows<strong> <\/strong>and<strong> Trump&#8217;s former senior adviser Stephen Miller<\/strong>, the latter of <strong>whom has been described as a white nationalist.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/trump-cabinet-officials-voted-2018-white-house-meeting-separate-migrant-n1237416\">NBC News<\/a>: \u201cIn early May 2018, after weeks of phone calls and private meetings, 11 of the president\u2019s most senior advisers were called to the White House Situation Room, where they were asked, by a show-of-hands vote, to decide the fate of thousands of migrant parents and their children, according to two officials who were there. <strong>President Donald Trump\u2019s senior adviser Stephen Miller led the meeting<\/strong>, and, according to the two officials, he was angry at what he saw as defiance by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. \u2026 At the meeting, <strong>Miller accused anyone opposing zero tolerance of being a lawbreaker and un-American<\/strong>, according to the two officials present.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/18\/us\/politics\/stephen-miller-white-nationalism.html\">New York Times<\/a>: \u201cThe White Nationalist Websites Cited by Stephen Miller\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-family-separation-policies-second-term-zero-tolerance-border911-rcna146270\">NBC News<\/a>: <strong>\u201cHoman was an early proponent of the administration\u2019s controversial \u2018zero tolerance\u2019 policy, which resulted in at least 5,500 families being separated at the southern border in 2018.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo-wire\/2024\/05\/on-the-anniversary-of-family-separation-the-heritage-foundation-hosted-the-policys-intellectual-father\/\">Mother Jones<\/a>: <strong>\u201cOn the Anniversary of Family Separation, the Heritage Foundation Hosted the Policy\u2019s Intellectual \u2018Father\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cHoman is also helping lay the groundwork for a potential second Trump presidency\u2019s mass deportation plans.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/politics\/heritage-foundation-2025-donald-trump\">The Week<\/a>: \u201cThe Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Project 2025 wants to reshape America under Trump\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2024-04-04\/trump-mar-a-lago-fundraiser-family-separation-policy-non-profit\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>: \u201cTrump appears at a fundraiser for a creator of his \u2018family separation\u2019 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