🧵 Now that @realDonaldTrump has said his mass deportation effort will be 'bloody' I have a modest proposal for…

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A journalist calls on major news outlets to press Trump on specifics of his proposed mass deportation plan, posing 13 detailed questions about identification, enforcement, logistics, and constitutional legality. The thread argues the plan amounts to ethnic cleansing rather than coherent policy.

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🧵 Now that @realDonaldTrump has said his mass deportation effort will be 'bloody' I have a modest proposal for @nytimes @washingtonpost @WSJ @USATODAY @politico @NBCNews @CBSNews and @ABC: Ask him and his campaign these simple questions: 1/
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1. How are you going to identify who gets deported? 2. How will you distinguish between undocumented immigrants, naturalized citizens, and native-born Americans? 3.Who will carry out this program? What will their rules of engagement be? 2/
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4. Will you deputize state and local law enforcement to assist? What if the governor refuses to cooperate? 5. Once you’ve identified them, how are you going to take them into custody? 6. What happens if they refuse to go peacefully? 3/
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7. What happens to their property: Homes, cars, personal items, post-detention and deportation? 8. Once you’ve taken them into custody, where will they be housed before deportation? 4/
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9. Assuming you’ll need holding facilities, where will they be and who will maintain their security and sanitary conditions? How will you ensure families are not (again) separated? 10. If a federal court enjoins the deportations, will you abide by their ruling, or proceed anyway?
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11. What vehicle (car, plane, boat, spaceship, ark) do you plan to use in the deportation of 10 million people? 12. What happens if the country to which you’re sending these people refuses to accept them? 6/
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13. How will you account for the economic wreckage caused by millions of people being taken out of both the taxpayer and consumer populations? This isn't a program, it's a pogrom. It's not law & order, it's ethnic cleansing. 7x