Immigration activists march outside RNC to protest Trump's potential policies

A group of immigration advocates marched on Monday in Milwaukee in the context of the Republican National Convention, protesting against what they said would be devastating policies should Donald Trump be elected in the November elections.

Brad Sigal, from the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, said that Trump's first term was a "catastrophe" for migrants and that "he's promising to do worse this time." The group is part of the Coalition to March on the RNC, the largest to be protesting the convention.

"When immigrant lives are attacked, what do we do? We rise up and fight back," said organizers through megaphones on the streets of the city.

RNC attendees, however, were largely focused on Trump announcing Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate. In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump said that Vance will be "strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and far beyond..."

However, immigration has played a key role in Trump's campaign and is set to continue doing so as it progresses. The party's policy platform ahead of the elections listed "sealing the border and stopping the migrant invasion" as its No. 1 policy position, which formalizes the concept of a "migrant invasion" as an official policy of the Republican Party.

The second immigration-related proposal makes a nod to one of Trump's own goals if he were to become president again— mass deportations.

"Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history," reads point No. 2 in the document.

Mass deportations have been a central issue to the Trump campaign throughout this cycle. In an interview back in June, the former president and presumptive GOP nominee said he would resort to local police to carry out these operations, and he tends to give them "immunity" against potential legal challenges that may ensue as a result.

Similarly, the platform's 10th proposal intermingles immigration policy, global drug trafficking and criminal justice. It pledges to "stop the migrant crime epidemic," a position also consistent with Trump's rhetoric.

Trump was discussing unlawful immigration last Saturday at the time of his attempted assassination. In fact, he said that turning his head to look at a chart on a screen at the venue saved his life, preventing the bullet from hitting him in the head.