Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Wednesday condemned Donald Trump’s promise to execute the largest deportation operation in United States history if he is elected:
“While we fight to move our nation forward to a brighter future, Donald Trump and his extremist allies will keep trying to pull us backward. We all remember what they did to tear families apart. And now they have pledged to carry out the largest deportation — a mass deportation — in American history,” Harris said as she gave a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's 47th Annual Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.
“Imagine what that would look like and what that would be,” the vice president continued. “How's that going to happen? Massive raids? Massive detention camps? What are they talking about?”
While Trump on the 2024 presidential campaign trail has frequently promised to deport undocumented immigrants, he has declined to give specifics about how he would undertake such a massive operation. As of January 2022, there were about 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. who entered the country illegally, according to Pew Research Center estimates.
