Former President Donald Trump would take drastic actions to stop illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border if elected president, including conducting ideology screenings to ensure pro-Marxist immigrants are not admitted.
The former president's campaign released a lengthy list of actions to Axios on Sunday that it would take in a second term, including allowing Texas to defend the national border by permitting Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to install more buoy barriers in the Rio Grande.
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"New report on President Trump's in-depth immigration plans. After implementing the first-ever asylum ban, travel ban, public charge ban, welfare ban, lottery ban, etc., the nationalist reforms queued up for just the first 100 days of Term 2 are sublime," said Stephen Miller, Trump's former White House senior adviser, in a Monday post to X, formerly known as Twitter.
Abbott installed a 1,000-foot string of buoys in the river in July to deter immigrants from crossing.
Trump wants to expand that idea, which would also likely mean wiping out the Justice Department's lawsuit against Texas on the basis that the buoys violate the Rivers and Harbors Act.
Since being sued by President Joe Biden's administration last month, Abbott has refused to take down floating barriers in direct defiance of the DOJ order to remove them. Democrats have complained that the buoys could harm immigrants who try to get across in that area.
Earlier this month, a deceased immigrant was found near the buoy. Texas officials said the person drowned upstream and was carried down the river into the buoys.
Abbott faces additional legal troubles from Mexico, which denounced the buoys and threatened legal action. Most recently, the DOJ stated in its lawsuit that 90% of the buoys had drifted onto the Mexico side of the Rio Grande. Mexico said the buoys violate international water agreements.
But Trump still views a physical wall on land as critical to border security and vowed to finish the 18- to 30-foot-tall border wall in the remaining 1,500 miles that do not have his standard of wall. Trump installed 450 miles of wall before leaving office, failing to finish the 1,950 total miles he had promised and costing taxpayers billions of dollars despite his vow that Mexico would pay for it.
The Coast Guard and Navy would be deployed to the western shores of parts of South and Central America, as well as Mexico, to block imports from China in an attempt to prevent fentanyl ingredients from making it to Mexico, where drug cartels manufacture the final product.
Trump is the first to propose deeming drug cartels "unlawful enemy combatants." Doing so would allow the military to target cartels in Mexico.
Countries with high levels of immigrants overstaying visas would be barred from the U.S. visa program altogether. Immigrants would have to prove they can afford health insurance and even pay bonds to enter the country, as well as submit to having their social media accounts inspected by the government.
Trump would rely on U.S. law that the federal government historically has used to block communists from being admitted into the United States and effectively restart its enforcement.
Marxism is defined as the "political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism."
A second Trump administration would reinstate public health emergency policy Title 42 on the basis that general illnesses are entering the country from the southern border. The policy allowed Border Patrol agents to turn away immigrants immediately rather than taking people into custody and processing them.
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However, under Title 42, the number of illegal immigrant encounters spiked to the highest monthly levels the country has ever seen, which could make getting support from Republicans a challenge.
A Trump campaign official did not respond to a request for comment.