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President Joe Biden<\/strong>\u2019s campaign responded Saturday to a bombshell New York Times<\/em> report<\/a> detailing former president and current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s proposed radical plans for immigration policy should he be re-elected in 2024. The campaign criticized Trump\u2019s policy ambitions\u2014which the Times<\/em> reported would amount to an \u201cassault on immigration on a scale unseen in modern American history\u201d\u2014as \u201ccruel and extreme.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMass detention camps, attempts to deny children born here citizenship, uprooting families with mass deportations \u2014 this is the horrifying reality that awaits the American people if Donald Trump is allowed anywhere near the Oval Office again,\u201d said<\/a> Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa<\/strong> in a statement. \u201cThese extreme, racist, cruel policies dreamed up by him and his henchman Stephen Miller<\/strong> are meant to stoke fear and divide us, betting a scared and divided nation is how he wins this election.\u201d<\/p>\n The NYT<\/em> report, which drew on conversations with several close Trump advisors\u2014including Stephen Miller<\/strong>, the architect of draconian immigration policies during Trump\u2019s first term and an expected senior official in a future administration\u2014revealed the ambitions of the nation\u2019s 45th president to crack down spectacularly on immigration have only grown since leaving office.<\/p>\n \u201cTrump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,\u201d Miller vowed.<\/p>\n If re-elected, according to Miller, Trump would reinstate a version of the Muslim ban, which Biden reversed soon after assuming the presidency. He would revive the use of the emergency powers law known as Title 42, which allowed the U.S. to deny migrants the right to seek asylum on public health grounds. Trump would attempt to end DACA, which protects children who were brought to the U.S. illegally, as well as birthright citizenship, which guarantees citizenship to children born to undocumented parents.<\/p>\n A second Trump administration would seek to deport millions of undocumented immigrants every year with the help of federal troops, the Times<\/em> reported. Perhaps most shocking, Trump\u2019s plan is to detain undocumented immigrants in large camps as they wait to be deported. Miller said the camps would be built \u201con open land in Texas near the border.\u201d<\/p>\n Many of the proposals detailed in the Times<\/em> reporting would face significant financial, logistical, and, perhaps most importantly, legal hurdles. But Trump has the presumed advantage of a Supreme Court and federal appellate judiciary stacked with conservative judges he appointed during his first term, when federal courts stymied several of his immigration policies. The former president, moreover, is planning on redirecting money in the military budget toward deportations to circumvent congressional approval, Miller said.<\/p>\n And the sheer scale of the proposed changes\u2014which Miller described as a \u201cblitz\u201d\u2014is designed to overwhelm legal challenges. \u201cThe immigration legal activists won\u2019t know what\u2019s happening,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n The Times<\/em> report comes as Trump continues to escalate his anti-immigrant rhetoric. \u201cWe\u2019ll stop the invasion on our southern border and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,\u201d the former president said during a Veterans Day rally on Saturday in New Hampshire. During the speech<\/a>, Trump vowed to \u201croot out\u201d what he called \u201cthe radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n