Where the Republican presidential candidates stand on immigration

 

NPR analyzes the views of the Republican candidates for President in the 2024 campaign on immigration.  All echo President Trump's emphasis on immigration enforcement.  Without naming it by its official name, Trump and others endorse a comeback of President Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback," the largest mass deportation campaign in U.S. history -- and one that targeted persons of Mexican ancestry.  All of the Republican candidates for President seemingly endorse an end to birthright citizenship, 

"At the heart of Republican promises are expanding the immigration detention system, strengthening Border Patrol, deputizing local law enforcement, deploying military to the border, and large scale deportations. One of the main concerns they have expressed has been fentanyl coming over the border — although, as NPR has reported, virtually no migrants or asylum seekers have been caught smuggling fentanyl, and it mostly comes through legal ports of entry."

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