Former White House adviser Susan Rice claimed Wednesday on MSNBC that former President Donald Trump will implement “mass deportation of American citizens” if elected in November.
Rice and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski presented a false equivalence that migrants like the 20,000 Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are somehow naturalized immigrants that were granted citizenship, when in fact they were flown into the U.S. by the Biden administration’s parole program or Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program and were not at all legalized through the standard immigration process.
Brzezinski told Rice, “I’d love to hear your comments on what Trump plans to do in Springfield and across the board when it comes to denaturalization processes and mass deportations.”
“This is really quite terrifying,” Rice replied. “We’ve heard for many, many months about his plans for mass deportations of undocumented persons here in the United States. That would be hugely violent and disruptive, separating families, causing millions to be expelled through the use of force, but what he’s saying now is something quite different and even more scary.“
The former UN Ambassador went even further, claiming Trump is planning to deport actual “American citizens” because the Haitian migrants were brought into the U.S. “legally.”
“What he is saying is, you recall last week Donald Trump went out and said that he was going to expel the Haitians in this country starting in Springfield who are here in this country legally, legally, working with authorization and send them to Venezuela of all places,” she said. “He has said very clearly that he is going to deport immigrants who are here legally, but he said something that’s even more outrageous, and that is what is reflected in Stephen Miller’s social media post, and that is that he will expel and denaturalize American citizens, American citizens who were not born here.”
“There are over 25 million American citizens who are naturalized, who are law-abiding, who are taxpayers, who have families in this country. They are fathers, they are mothers, they are children, they are our neighbors, they are American citizens. Back in the Trump administration they set up an office in the Justice Department to denaturalize American citizens.”
“We’re talking about a massive increase in the number of people that they try to ship out of the country on false pretenses because perhaps they don’t like the countries from which they came,” she continued. “Can you imagine what that means for this country when American citizens living here lawfully, living their lives with their family, can one day wake up and find themselves denaturalized and deported? Now that the Supreme Court has said that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, if God forbid it were to be him again, can do whatever he wants in the office of the presidency with immunity, this is a recipe for mass expulsions of American citizens.”
“With the Supreme Court saying that a president has literally no constraints on what he does in that office, then there is nothing preventing the federal government from literally without due process walking into people’s homes and separating families if they don’t like, you know, the color of the skin, or the country of origin, or the religion, or you name it, of whomever it is who is here in this country legally as an American citizen,” Rice added.
There is a significant difference between naturalized immigrants and migrants who have been granted temporary legal status and given welfare in the U.S. due to government programs like Biden’s parole program or other humanitarian-based initiatives.
Biden in 2023 launched his “Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans” (CHNV) parole program to fly into the U.S. hundreds of thousands of “inadmissible” nationals from those foreign nations for a period of two years to live and work, using a legal mechanism known as “humanitarian parole.”
That means their presence in the U.S. does NOT equate to naturalization or permanent residency, and Trump would be within his full rights as president to reverse the Biden/Harris-era program.
Rice is intelligent enough to understand the distinction, but she’s employing dishonest inflammatory rhetoric typical of the Democrat Party to paint Trump as some kind of dictator intent on deporting actual American citizens.
It’s this kind of over-the-top rhetoric that’s resulted in two assassination attempts against the former president, the most recent instance occurring just days ago.
Trump detailed more of his deportation plan Sunday on X:
As President I will immediately end the migrant invasion of America. We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries, terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals (CBP One App), revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala’s illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration). I will save our cities and towns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and all across America.
As President I will immediately end the migrant invasion of America. We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries, terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals (CBP One App), revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala’s…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2024
Meanwhile, Harris has said she plans to provide a “pathway to citizenship” for the tens of millions of illegal aliens she and Biden imported into the U.S. during their time in office.
Kamala pledges to make all the illegals she imported, bussed, released and flew into the United States into citizens. https://t.co/urTVlHifEG
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) September 18, 2024