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Trump is now threatening to deport legal immigrants
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Trump and the interviewer are talking about Temporary Protected Status, which is temporary.
Source.
TPS eligibility for people from Haiti will last until February 3, 2026 unless it is extended. If during a Trump presidency, the federal government does not extend TPS for Haiti, it would be acting well within its established authority.
Hmm, isn’t he suggesting that he would revoke their status? That is very different from ‘deciding not to extend it’.
The interviewer was the one who used the word "revoke" but Trump does seem like the kind of person who could attempt to end the TPS designation early rather than waiting for it to simply expire a year into his term. Such an attempt would have very little chance of success. Decisions to terminate (as opposed to revoke early) TPS status during Trump's past presidency are still going through the courts (see Ramos, et al. v. Nielsen, et al.) and not in effect.
The interviewer asked if he would revoke it and he said yes he would revoke it. Words have meaning. He was asked a question, and he answered it very clearly and honestly more lucidly than his average response. He repeated the word revoke.
If he meant “let expire” he would have said “No, I wouldn’t revoke it but I would allow that to expire.” I don’t know what here is ambiguous. I get it, people hate Trump enough that sometimes they fill in the blanks with the worst possible thing. It’s hard to blame them because he usually says the worst possible things, but regardless that isn’t what is happening here.
That isn't what Trump means and you know it.
Revoking and not extending are two different things.
Man, I can't believe 10 years of Trump and people are still doing this "sure, he said that, but he's actually a brilliant legal and political tactician and what he means is........"
The man is a moron, surrounded by the most hateful motherfuckers on the planet. He says what he Fucking means.
When he says terrible shit he is saying what he means.
He also frequently says non-terrible shit, but then contradicts himself shortly after so we know that whe he says something that isn't terrible then he is lying.
Then why didn’t he say
Absolutely, I’d NOT EXTEND it and I’d bring them back to their country,” Trump said.
??
Defo 2 very different things
The federal government uses the term "terminate" rather than "revoke" to describe the decision not to extend TPS, but even the article the OP posted (which is very critical of Trump's plan) interprets what he said as "not extend".
But he's not saying he'd not extend the TPS. He's saying he'd revoke it (for Haitians (in Ohio)).
I imagine if someone tries to get him to say exactly what he meant by this, he'd just do his standard backpedal and hide in obscurity or accuse the reporter of being rude.
His inability to speak clearly and his frequent desire to be pointlessly cruel are both reasons I won't vote for him, but I do think it's important to note that he's not proposing to deport permanent residents.
Don't worry, no deportation. Just the camps and the ovens for you.
You can't have it both ways. Trump supporters say "he tells it like it is" and then turn around and say "well he didn't actually mean what he said, he actually meant this other thing". Which is it?