众议员拜伦唐纳兹，佛罗里达州，一个突出的盟友唐纳德·特朗普这位当选总统预计，一旦他上任，将会进行大规模的驱逐行动。
唐纳兹在接受《本周》节目主持人玛莎·拉达茨的采访时说，地方和联邦执法部门，比如美国移居海关执法部门将在驱逐出境方面发挥主导作用，他说，驱逐出境将侧重于被判有罪的移民和那些已经获得合法驱逐令但仍留在美国的人。
“当你谈论军事资产被使用时，那只是在极端的最后手段。有超过6000名官员已经献身于将非法外国人驱逐出我们的国家，这些人已经有了合法的驱逐令，但还没有执行乔·拜登，”唐纳兹说。
“我认为如果你打算动用军事资产，那也是万不得已，但那只是出于后勤目的，玛莎。所以，我认为我们必须非常小心的是，不要试图抛弃这种想法，你会有军队在美国挨家挨户敲门。这是不可能的。"
特朗普将移民作为其竞选的基石，抨击总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)在其任期早些年未经授权的边境过境数量创下纪录。
这位当选总统誓言要驱逐非法入境的移民，但也要取消某些提供合法身份的项目，包括为海地人和其他移民群体提供临时保护身份。
根据移民政策研究所的分析，特朗普在第一个任期内驱逐了约150万移民，但唐纳兹预测，这一数字将在特朗普的第二个任期内超过。
唐纳兹告诉拉达茨说:“只是和你说说，最少会有200万，但会更多，因为已经有驱逐令的人，在我们国家犯了罪的人，已经被判谋杀罪的人，他们需要离开，并且立即离开。”
唐纳兹还预测，更严格的边境执法和加大的驱逐力度将导致一些无证移民自行离开美国，而不是被执法部门驱逐出境，执法部门禁止他们在10年内回到美国。
“当你有一个积极的驱逐程序时，我们确实知道有外国人想要回到他们的祖国。他们不希望在处理冰毒的过程中被抓住，因为如果你通过这个过程被驱逐出境，那么你实际上将在10年内被禁止返回美国，”唐纳兹说。
“当你关闭开放我们边境的水龙头，当你关闭对美国非法外国人的所有援助的水龙头，然后你有一位美国总统和一个认真对待将人们遣返回国的政府，你会看到来美国的吸引力不会像乔·拜登执政时那样，”唐纳兹补充说。
Byron Donalds: Using military for deportations would be a 'last resort'
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., a prominent ally ofDonald Trump, downplayed the prospects of the military having a major role in what the president-elect has previewed as a massive deportation effort once he takes office.
Speaking with "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz, Donalds said that local and federal law enforcement like U.S.Immigrationand Customs Enforcement will take the lead on deportations, which he said would focus on immigrants convicted of crimes and those who have already been given legal deportation orders but remain in the country.
"When you're talking about military assets being used, that's only in an extreme last resort. There are more than 6,000 officers who have who have dedicated their lives to having to remove illegal aliens from our country, people who already have a legal deportation order, but it hasn't been effectuated byJoe Biden," Donalds said.
"I think if you're going to use military assets, that's in the last resorts, but that's only for logistical purposes, Martha. And so, I think that what we have to be very careful of is not to try to throw out this idea that you're going to have troops in theUnited Statesgoing door to door. That is not going to happen."
Trump made immigration a cornerstone of his campaign, panning President Joe Biden for the record numbers of unauthorized border crossings that occurred in the earlier years of his term.
The president-elect has vowed to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally but also to scrap certain programs that offer legal status, including Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and other groups of immigrants.
Trump deported about 1.5 million immigrants during his first term, according to a Migrant Policy Institute analysis, but Donalds predicted that number will be topped during Trump's second term.
"Just speaking with you anecdotally, it's at a minimum going to be 2 million, but it's going to be more, because the amount of people who already have a deportation order, people who are in our country who have committed crimes, people who have already been convicted of murder, they need to go and go immediately," Donalds told Raddatz.
Donalds also predicted that stricter border enforcement and ramped-up deportation efforts will lead some undocumented immigrants to leave the country on their own, rather than get kicked out by law enforcement, which prohibits them from coming back to the country for 10 years.
"When you have an active deportation process, we do know that there are aliens who are going to want to go back to their home country. They're not going to want to be caught up in the process of dealing with ICE, because if you're deported through that process, then you will actually be barred from returning to the United States for a period of 10 years," Donalds said.
"When you turn off the spigots of opening our borders, when you turn off the spigots of all this aid going to illegal aliens in the United States, and then you have a president of the United States and a government who is serious about repatriating people back to their home country, you will see that the enticement of coming to America is not going to be what it was under Joe Biden," Donalds added.
