“Mass Deportation Now!” declared the signs at the Republican National Convention, giving a full embrace to Donald Trump’s pledge to expel millions of migrants in the largest deportation program in American history.

Some Republicans aren’t quite ready for that.

Lauren B. Peña, a Republican activist from Texas, said that hearing Trump’s calls for mass deportations, as well as terms like “illegals” and “invasion” thrown around at the convention, made her feel uncomfortable. Like some Republicans in Congress who have advanced balanced approaches to immigration, she hopes Trump is just blustering.

“He’s not meaning to go and deport every family that crosses the border, he means deport the criminals and the sex offenders,” Peña said.

  • @Eheran
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    1 month ago

    “He doesn’t mean what he says”

    What is up next?

    “He doesn’t mean what he makes others do”?

    “He doesn’t mean what he is doing”?

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      It’s fine because the courts will surely stop him.

      • @mriguy
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        Yes, absolutely. The Supreme Court that he appointed certainly won’t continue to give him immunity to get away with literally anything he does…

      • @[email protected]
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        Of course, the strategy of electing him and giving him power to keep adding more trump-loyalists to the court…

        Surely the courts will stop him after that

    • @Dragomus
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      “I do not believe my people have done this” (So do not try to seek justice)