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The cicadas are coming — and if you're in the Midwest or the Southeast, they will be more plentiful than ever. Or at least since the Louisiana Purchase. The last time the Northern Illinois Brood's 17-year cycle aligned with the Great Southern Brood's 13-year period, Thomas Jefferson was president. After this spring, it'll be another 221 years before the broods, which are geographically adjacent, appear together again.
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Former President Donald Trump is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 — including preparing to round up people living in the United States without legal permission on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled.
The plans would sharply restrict both legal and illegal immigration in a multitude of ways.
Trump wants to revive his first-term border policies, including banning entry by people from certain Muslimmajority nations and reimposing a COVID-19-era policy of refusing asylum claims — although this time, he would base that refusal on assertions that migrants carry other infectious diseases like tuberculosis.
He plans to scour the country for immigrants living here without legal permission and deport people by the millions per year.
To help speed mass deportations, Trump is preparing an enormous expansion of a form of removal that does not require due-process hearings.
To help Immigration and Customs Enforcement carry out sweeping raids, he plans to reassign other federal agents and deputize local police officers and National Guard soldiers voluntarily contributed by Republican-run states.
To ease the strain on ICE detention facilities, Trump wants to build huge camps to detain people while their cases are processed and they await deportation flights. And to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Trump would redirect money in the military budget, as he did in his first term to spend more on a border wall than Congress had authorized.
In interviews with the New York Times, several Trump advisers gave the most expansive and detailed description yet of Trump's immigration agenda in a potential second term. In particular, Trump's campaign referred questions for this article to Stephen Miller, an architect of Trump's first-term immigration policies who remains close to him and is expected to serve in a senior role in a second administration.
All of the steps Trump advisers are preparing, Miller contended, rely on existing statutes; while the Trump team would likely seek a revamp of immigration laws, the plan was crafted to need no new legislation.
And while acknowledging lawsuits would arise to challenge nearly every one of them, he portrayed the Trump team's daunting array of tactics as a "blitz" designed to overwhelm immigrant rights lawyers.
The totality of Trump's 2025 plans amounts to an assault on immigration on a scale unseen in modern American history.
Millions of immigrants living in the country without legal permission would be banned from the U.S. or uprooted from it years or even decades after settling here.
Such a scale of planned removals would raise logistical, financial and diplomatic challenges and would be vigorously challenged in court.
But there is no mistaking the breadth and ambition of the shift Trump is eyeing.
In a second Trump presidency, the visas of foreign students who participated in anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian protests would be canceled.
U.S. consular officials abroad would be directed to expand ideological screening of visa applicants to block people the Trump administration considers to have undesirable attitudes.
People who were granted temporary protected status because they are from certain countries deemed unsafe, allowing them to lawfully live and work in the United States, would have that status revoked.
Similarly, numerous people who have been allowed to live in the country temporarily for humanitarian reasons would also lose that status and be kicked out, including tens of thousands of the Afghans who were evacuated amid the 2021 Taliban takeover and allowed to enter the United States.
And Trump would try to end birthright citizenship for babies born in the United States to parents living in the country without legal permission — by proclaiming that policy to be the new position of the government and by ordering agencies to cease issuing citizenship-affirming documents like Social Security cards and passports to them. That policy's legal legitimacy, like nearly all of Trump's plans, would be virtually certain to end up before the Supreme Court.
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