Thursday, September 29, 2016

Donald Trump's Police State - The Atlantic

On many subjects, Donald Trump has given no indication of what he’d do if elected, but he has fleshed out at least two specific elements of his domestic agenda:

Asked what he would do about black-on-black crime, Trump “called for the broad use of the contentious stop-and-frisk policing strategy in America’s cities.” As Trump himself put it, “I would do stop-and-frisk. I think you have to.”

At multiple campaign rallies, he has suggested that he would round up and deport the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. And in his formal speech on immigration policy, he listed various types of people he would round up and deport that total at least half that number: criminals, visa overstays, recent arrivals, and anyone receiving public benefits. The press has yet to clarify what this would mean in practice....
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/donald-trump-stop-and-frisk-blacks-round-up-millions-of-hispanics/501032/?utm_source=feed


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