Trump continued: “That’s why, to keep our family safe, the Republican platform promises to launch the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.”
In addition to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, Trump has said he will make use of local police, National Guard and potentially the US military.
He told Time magazine: “When we talk military, generally speaking, I talk National Guard. I would have no problem using the military, per se,” he said. “We have to have law and order in our country.”
Harris
Contrary to Trump’s claims, Harris was not Biden’s “border czar”.
She was given the job in the administration in July 2021 to examine the “root causes” of Central American migration to the US, even as it has continued to soar.
She went to Guatemala and other nations and warned would-be migrants: “Do not come”.
She said she opposes family separation and would permit undocumented spouses of US citizens to apply for a green card.
Harris was a strong supporter of the bipartisan border deal that would have been the first meaningful immigration reform since 1986, but the measure was scuttled by Trump who wanted to attack Democrats over the “chaotic border”.
“We are very clear, and I think most Americans are clear, that we have a broken immigration system and we need to fix it,” she told an interviewer. “They’re refusing to put it up for a vote, and in large part because we know the former president would prefer to run on a problem instead of fix a problem.”
Trump
Trump has officially called for an immediate ceasefire. “Every day this proxy battle in Ukraine continues, we risk global war,” he said in a statement last year. We must be absolutely clear that our objective is to IMMEDIATELY have a total cessation of hostilities.”
He has said he could bring about a ceasefire in “one day” though he has declined to say how.
Trump has said Russia would not have invaded if he had been president rather than Biden, but termed Putin’s move an act of “genius”.
He has said he supports extra aid to Ukraine, albeit possibly in the form of a loan.
This summer after he secured the GOP nomination, he spoke by phone with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump said afterwards: “I appreciate President Zelensky for reaching out because I, as your next President of the United States, will bring peace to the world and end the war that has cost so many lives and devastated countless innocent families.”
Zelensky said of their conversation: “I noted the vital bipartisan and bicameral American support for protecting our nation’s freedom and independence.”
Harris
Harris has been a major part of Joe Biden’s efforts to rally Nato and other countries in support of Ukraine.
Speaking before Russia had invaded but as the US warned it was going to, she told the 2022 Munich security conference the world had reached “a decisive moment in history”.
Harris has met Zelensky six times.