In his program for the American presidential election, Donald Trump includes a proposal reminiscent of a measure applied by the Nazi regime in 1941.
Less than a month before the US presidential election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the polls. The Republican candidate is slightly ahead of his Democratic competitor nationally, according to the political analysis site 538 of the ABC News media, with 46% of the potential votes against 48.4%. To keep conservative voters committed to his cause, and convince voters who are still undecided, the real estate mogul is banking on a program well identified with the American right, both on the economic level and on immigration.
The program of Donald Trump has the merit of being clear in terms of immigration: he wishes to launch “the largest expulsion operation” of migrants as soon as he is elected if he were to join the White House. The former President of the United States also plans to “use the army” to achieve his goals and expel migrants, then open new retention camps. The automatic soil right will also be canceled in the event of the election of Donald Trump, “for children born to irregular migrants”. Please note, such a measure would be contrary to the 14th Amendment to the American Constitution; de facto, its application is already compromised even in the event of the election of Donald Trump on November 5. Joe Biden’s predecessor recently accused migrants of “poisoning the blood of the country”.
In the columns of TimeDonald Trump indicates that this “expulsion plan” would concern 15 to 20 million people in the country. The operation could start, in the event of the latter’s second term, by targeting certain cities such as Springfield (Ohio) or Aurora (Colorado), already targeted during his campaign, particularly during meetings.
“Keep foreign communists, Marxists and socialists out of America”
Republicans are also considering two other clear measures that America’s legal immigration system “prioritizes American workers.” These proposals are part of the Donald Trump’s program for the 2024 American presidential election, unsurprisingly titled: Make America great again. First, the party will prioritize merit-based immigration, “ensuring that those admitted to our country contribute positively to our society and economy, and never become a drain on resources public”, we can read in the document. In other words, putting American workers first.
At the same time, Donald Trump plans to cut federal funding for “sanctuary jurisdictions that release dangerous illegal alien criminals onto our streets, rather than handing them over to ICE,” one of the government agencies tasked with repatriation. or the expulsion of immigrants. But that’s not all, diving into the Republican candidate’s program, one point seems to stand out in particular, it is point number 4, “strict control”, of the second chapter “sealing the border and stopping the invasion of migrants”.
Donald Trump plans, as stated in black and white in his platform, to use “existing federal law to keep foreign communists, Marxists and socialists who hate Christians out of America.” Questioned on Fox News on Sunday, November 13, Donald Trump affirmed that “the National Guard”, or even “military personnel if necessary”, should be dispatched against an “enemy from within”, whom he did not name, after a question from the channel about possible “agitators” during the election. The latter assured that he wanted to repress “very bad people (…) crazy people, far-left weirdos”. The day before, in California, an elected member of the State House of Representatives, Adam Schiff, was attacked in particular, a “scumbag” and a “sick person”, among the “worst enemies from within” .
Could the decision to remove certain populations from the national territory be extended to tourists? In this case, how can we determine the political color of a European wishing to enter American territory? In France, for example, universal suffrage is always secret, in accordance with article 3 of the Constitution as recalled by Constitutional Council. The secrecy of the vote is guaranteed by respecting procedures in polling stations on election days. Impossible, in this case, to prohibit the entry into the United States of a French citizen whose political sensibility is close to communism, for example. “Those who join our Country must love our Country. We will use extreme control to ensure that jihadists and jihad sympathizers are not admitted,” specifies the Republican program, without giving more details on the “extreme control”, which could be implemented.
A proposal reminiscent of a measure applied by the Nazis
In a campaign speech delivered in June 2023 in Washington, Donald Trump recalled, according to him, the growing danger of socialism and communism. “At the end of the day, either the communists destroy America, or we destroy the communists (…) This is the final battle. With you by my side, we will drive out the globalists, we will drive out the communists,” he said. he declared. He had called for mass deportations of immigrants with left-wing views: “Using federal law, Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, I will order my government to ban entry to all communists and all Marxists,” he explained.
But that’s not all. The Republican candidate also announced “a new plan to protect the integrity of our immigration system. Federal law prohibits communists and totalitarians from entering the United States. But my question is: what are we going to do? make those who are already here, who grew up here I think we need to pass a new law for them.” An outing that had never taken place before, no major political figure in the United States had uttered these words.
The denaturalization laws of 1933, on Reich citizenship and the 11th decree of the Reich Citizenship Act of 1941 had enabled the Nazi government of the time to deprive hundreds of thousands of Germans of their citizenship rights in the name of their political opinion (socialist) or their Jewish or Roma origins by placing them outside the “Volksgemeinschaft”. Using Hitler’s language for Donald Trump marked a real tipping point in American democracy. According to Michael Bender, the author of the book Frankly, We did win this electionDonald Trump reportedly said during a visit to France in 2018 that Hitler “did a lot of good things.” Six years later, Trump’s program for the American presidential election recalls a measure applied by the Nazi regime.