Gene Lyons: Talk of mass deportation is just a lot of hot air

Putting aside the question of whether he will be inaugurated as president come January, is there any chance that Donald Trump will deport millions of undocumented immigrants from the United States? To anybody who knows very much about what's actually going on in the American economy, the answer is no. Of course not. Even Trump is not that crazy.

As my favorite political blogger Kevin Drum puts it: "When Donald Trump thunders about deporting every illegal immigrant in the country, it's just empty talk, red meat for the rubes. In reality, our economy would collapse without immigrants, and no one wants to risk that. So we continue appealing to xenophobia with walls and agents and raids, but it's all theater.



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