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The United States President Joe Biden has promised to ensure peaceful and orderly transition to the President-elect, Donald Trump.
Biden stated this on Thursday while addressing Americans for the first time since Trump won Tuesday’s election.
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According to the President, he called Trump and assured him that his administration will work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.
Trump is to be inaugurated on January 20, 2025.
“I’ll fulfill my oath, and I will honor the Constitution. On January 20, we’ll have a peaceful transfer of power here in America,” Biden added.
Donald Trump had committed to initiating what he describes as the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, vowing to begin the process on his first day in office if re-elected. His promise signals a continuation of his hardline stance on immigration, with a focus on removing undocumented immigrants.
Putting the plan into action, however, could prove challenging. “Rhetoric is one thing,” noted Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell University, adding that “actual implementation is something else entirely.” Yale-Loehr’s remarks highlight the potential gap between policy promises and real-world execution.
“The Constitution provides due process for everyone in the country, not just US citizens, so Trump cannot just round up people and send them out of the country the next day,” Yale-Loehr told AFP. “There already is a backlog of over 3.6 million cases in our immigration courts.”
Beyond the humanitarian and legal concerns, expelling millions would carry enormous financial implications, affect economic sectors, and present a logistical ordeal. Such an undertaking would necessitate meticulous coordination and immense resources to achieve.
“It would require Congress to give the administration tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions, of dollars,” he said.
