In a policy reversal, Canada has tightened rules against immigration with hundreds of thousands of people now expected to depart when their visas expire. Europe, which struggled for years to limit the number of unauthorized migrants, has begun instituting increasingly tough policies. 

Meanwhile, in the United States, Donald Trump was elected president on a pledge to round-up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants. What’s behind the backlash against migration in the West?

Joining the discussion: 

• Klaus Larres is a Global Fellow with the Wilson Center and a Distinguished History and International Affairs Professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. 
• Laura Carlsen served as Director of the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy. She currently heads the international relations think tank “Mira: Feminisms and Democracies.” 
• Ira Mehlman is the Media Director for FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
• Yves Engler is a Montreal-based author and political activist.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says he supports President-elect Donald Trump's plan for mass deportations, but not his suggestion of using the military for it, "because it's illegal."

"We've had a distrust of putting the army into our streets," he says, calling for deportations "through… pic.twitter.com/WUms7FSu66

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Cecilia Vega asks: “Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?”

“Of course there is. Families can be deported together,” says Tom Homan, head of ICE during Trump’s family separation policy. https://t.co/If9G1sNEzj pic.twitter.com/TIWhi25Vdu

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 28, 2024