Well, Donald Trump is back. So love, like, or dislike it we have to determine what it means for us as a nation, because if you think that it doesn’t matter to us, you’re not thinking this out.

Before we start the analysis, it’s important that we understand why. First, a lot of people in the United States of America (USA) are not immigrant-friendly. I can understand why, but I don’t think they are analysing the facts. I get the issues relating to them not assimilating into society, creating instead their own micro-culture in micro-geographies. I love all people but I don’t want my community of 30 years to become a mini India, China — or any other culture for that matter.

I don’t think the core base of Donald Trump’s voters realise, though, that the effective workforce of a country is what allows for it to function. You need people, and you need people who can work the labour-intensive jobs.

Then there was the overt attempt to convict him of any offence they could as a means of removing him from being eligible as a presidential candidate. That was a bad idea. Stormy Daniels — that’s the best you can do? C’mon! People don’t like to believe you are circumventing their democratic right to choose who they please.

Then there is that very large group of poor whites who are not all educated and privileged. They have been sort of left out of the loop for a while. Their jobs went with the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and nobody really focuses on them as an electoral group to target. They are somewhat demonised historically because of Jim Crow, slavery, and race-related violence. They are all Trump supporters because he speaks for them.

Last, not least, is gun control. This issue crosses racial lines. The right to own whatever gun you choose is protected under the second amendment. I know you don’t need an assault rifle, however, if you have ever owned one you don’t want any politician telling you he wants to take it. Just leave the issue at state level. If the state elects a gun control advocate then the state wants gun control. It can’t be a federal issue.

So that’s the why.

Now what are the implications for us? Well, first, he’s not really a racist — he just knows what to say to racists to drum up their support.

Anti-immigrant activist? No, he is not one. He is a businessman. Every businessman in the United States knows that the hardest workers are Mexicans, South Americans, Central Americans and, of course, Jamaicans.

So legitimate migration to the United States will not be impacted. The policy of granting people at the Mexican border asylum will stop, to a large degree. This will result in fewer people being able to migrate and will somewhat impact future remittances, but not in the short run, and not significantly.

Fewer criminals will get to leave. This is a problem, because they will stay here and kill. The biggest issue to us is the mass deportation of illegal immigrants that is coming. They are, to a significant degree, going to be criminals. We need to prepare. I have said this before. We need time to investigate them upon arrival to determine who they are and what crime they committed before they left. This 48-hour period of detention is not going to cut it. They are not economic refugees. They are criminals; killers and gang members, and they are coming home to destroy the country.

I accept, however, that there will be innocent people who just decided to circumvent the process of getting a visa because they wanted a better life. They will also be in the group of deportees which is coming so that’s why I’m not advocating indefinite detention; three months is what I suggest.

Therefore, we need a detention centre for this purpose. We don’t have time to build it so we need to repurpose somewhere. It needs to be secure, and we need a budget for it. So those politicians we elected need to get busy.

Many of the deportees will come with false names and false histories. We need time to investigate. I know of 12 off the top of my head who are serious killers with cases to face, and that’s just my division without me really doing any serious digging.

All 12 I can think of will kill every year, several times. They will not necessarily be brought to justice in the first year. Start multiplying that figure by all divisions and it gets scary. Without any serious research I can estimate about a thousand killers coming home if the mass deportations involve the cancellation of the asylum grants. We really don’t need a rerun of the 90s deportation crisis.

We have done so well at such a high cost in police officers’ and soldiers’ lives in the last two years. We have to consider these gains at the cost to family life of the law enforcement personnel who have been lost to long shifts and who combat fatigue. Prosecutors, for relatively small salaries, have endangered themselves and their families. Political careers have been altered because of the change in culture where they no longer support or rely on gangsters for political leverage. Everything is on the line and it’s going to be real in a few months.

We are looking at the prospect of a sub-1,000 murder rate for 2025. If this mass deportation is not mitigated, then it will be 20 years before we achieve it.

Get busy, there is work to be done.

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