Trump is celebrating the new year by discussing border issues with Stephen Miller at Mar-a-Lago.
T: Stephen! Good to see you! Ready to talk illegal immigration?
M: Always, Mr. President. Always.
T: So what’s the plan?
M: There are two things we need to be working on now.
T: Which are?
M: First, we’re going to be relying heavily on the military to carry out our plans, so we have to find someone we can put in charge who can be trusted.
T: Heritage is working on that. What else?
M: We need to have an executive order finding an emergency at the border ready to go on Inauguration Day. The geographic boundary of it will be unlimited, and will specifically include all of the major cities in blue states.
T: Sounds good. Then what?
M: After the inauguration, we put the plan in motion. There are a number of components to it.
T: Including finishing the wall, I assume.
M: Of course!
T: How will we pay for it?
M: If there are any funds in the pipeline for Ukraine, we’ll use them. If not, it will just be part of the defense budget.
T: That could be considered illegal.
M: Who cares? The American people are demanding action. We’re not going to pay any attention to court orders we don’t like. The Supreme Court will probably buy our emergency argument in any event. Then we can use it to shut up everyone we don’t like.
T: How will we get the property for the wall?
M: We’ll start the eminent domain actions immediately.
T: I suppose we’ll be using the military to build our new deportation camps.
M: Right! They’ll be built in the worst places possible, but close to airports. We’ll make sure the immigrants are treated as poorly as possible. We’ll broadcast it to the world. That’s the kind of cruelty we need to create a deterrent.
T: How will the camps be filled?
M: We’ll send the military to the blue cities to conduct raids. Anyone who can’t immediately produce papers will be sent to a camp. We’ll give them a brief hearing, and then put them on a plane.
T: That sounds good. We know there will be demonstrations. We can use the troops to shoot the demonstrators while they’re in the blue cities. That will shut them up.
M: That’s the reason the emergency order won’t just apply to the border areas.
T: Anything else?
M: We’ll start sending troops to Mexico to fight the drug gangs.
T: What if the Mexicans object?
M: We’ll shut down all of the border crossings. That will show them.
T: But all of this will cause major economic problems for us, too. What do we say to our business constituents, and to the consumers?
M: No pain, no gain. Everyone will be better off when the border is secure. We’ll have a real country again.
T: OK. Let’s do it. (Miller leaves)