Donald Trump plans to carry out sweeping raids to round up undocumented migrants and put them in camps while they await deportation if he returns to the White House, according to reports.
The former US president is plotting a series of hardline migration policies if he wins a second term, which includes combing the country for millions of unauthorised people to expel.
Mr Trump, 77, is also understood to be planning to bring back Title 42, a Covid-era ban on asylum applications, as well as blocking citizens from certain Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
His plans come as the US struggles to cope with record numbers of migrants crossing the southern border as they flee violence, political unrest and poverty.
Cities have been buckling under the pressure of the influx of people, with Eric Adams, the Mayor of New York and a Democrat, saying that the crisis will “destroy” the city.
Mr Trump hinted at his plan during a September rally in Iowa in which he said he would bring in “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history” along the lines of the “Eisenhower model”, a reference to a 1954 campaign to detain and expel Mexican immigrants.