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If you read the page you linked it explicitly says:
It also lists specifically in the main points that causing physical or mental harms is right up at #2. You're suggesting that just telling them to GTFO and find someplace else to live is not harmful? Now, I suppose we could just say let them all come to the USA, but we ended up electing someone who made a pretty big promise of starting the largest deportation in history, do I don't see that happening.
I definitely think it’s harmful. I definitely think force and physical harm, and likely some murders would be required to actually remove them. What is being proposed is awful there’s no doubt about that.
But I cannot equate “mental harm” with “genocide”. You’re redefining an incredibly triggering word just so you can use it to attack an enemy. However redefining it is dangerous because it minimises the words true impact. You’re now, in effect, saying that Hitler “upset a few Jews” rather than he committed mass murder. You’re applying genocide to a bunch of places where it only really serves to make the word redundant.
Saying it reasonably fits the definition as established by the UN in no way equates to 'Hitler upset a few jews'.
You can call it what you will, frankly in many ways taking everything one has and throwing them to the wilds is crueler than to just kill them outright.