“Mass Deportation Now!” declared the signs at the Republican National Convention, giving a full embrace to Donald Trump’s pledge to expel millions of migrants in the largest deportation program in American history.

Some Republicans aren’t quite ready for that.

Lauren B. Peña, a Republican activist from Texas, said that hearing Trump’s calls for mass deportations, as well as terms like “illegals” and “invasion” thrown around at the convention, made her feel uncomfortable. Like some Republicans in Congress who have advanced balanced approaches to immigration, she hopes Trump is just blustering.

“He’s not meaning to go and deport every family that crosses the border, he means deport the criminals and the sex offenders,” Peña said.

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      5 months ago

      She doesn’t realize that they consider all brown-skinned immigrants as the “bad ones.”

      Hell, they don’t even have to be immigrants. They’re planning on deporting US citizens who are born to the undocumented.

      They’ll probably pull some bs from the Bible about punishing up to the third and fourth generation.