President-elect Donald Trump is selecting radical MAGA loyalists for top national security positions, signaling his intention to upend the professionalism and independence of institutions that wield some of the federal government’s most awesome powers. Political opponents, journalists and others could be victims. And President Joe Biden just gave him cover.

Trump’s plan has a dismal precedent

CHETICAMP, Nova Scotia – In the middle of the 18th century, Great Britain undertook a deportation program in the New World with many of the elements of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to expel hundreds of thousands of immigrants, perhaps even more than a million, from the United States. It did not go well.

Immigrants benefit to American life

Donald Trump has proposed many policies based on faulty assumptions and even outright lies. One of his most misleading falsehoods is his virulent denunciation of immigration.

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