Illegal immigrants facing deportation may be sent to countries other than their home nations under a plan being developed by President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team.
Deportation efforts often stall when a country, such as Venezuela, refuses to accept its citizens from the United States.
To address this issue, Trump’s team is reportedly working on identifying nations willing to accept illegal immigrants who are not their citizens, according to NBC News, citing unnamed sources.
“The plans could mean that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of migrants would be permanently displaced in countries where they do not know any of the people or the language and have no connection to the culture,” the report said, taking a seemingly tone-deaf stance given that migrants who cross illegally into the U.S. have no connection to American culture.
“It is not clear if the migrants would be allowed to legally remain to work and live in the countries to which they are deported. It is also not known what kind of pressure — either economic or diplomatic — the Trump transition is applying to countries to get them to agree, or might apply once President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated in January,” the report added.
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