Trump Confirms Military Will Assist in Mass Deportations
Trump also confirmed he will declare the border crisis a national emergency.
President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Truth Social he plans to declare the border crisis a national emergency and use the military to help with mass deportations.
“The American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin, giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail. He will deliver,” Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News.
Cue the freakout! Here come the camps! Here come the home invasions:
Such plans have been rumored for much of Trump’s campaign, raising fears among some critics that a future Trump administration would deploy the military onto American streets.
“They are promising to use the military to do mass raids of American families at a scale that harkens back to some of the worst things our country has done,” Todd Schulte, the president of FWD.us, an immigration advocacy organization, told The Associated Press in October.
Oh, wait. That was Janet Reno.
Alfonso Aguilar, a former chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship and the director of Hispanic engagement at the American Principles Project said the country would not become “militarized.”
A person with common sense would know that the military would play a support role:
But Aguliar argued that the military is to play a support role, providing logistics support to the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
“There is a lot of fearmongering from the left and many in the media,” Aguliar said. “These are not going to be sweeps of neighborhoods, these are going to be targeted arrests… initially going after criminals.”
“I would anticipate that the military would participate in a supportive capacity,” he continued. “You’re detaining people, you’re going to need to move these people and provide shelter.”
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Posse Comitatus might allow them to guard compounds where detainees wait to be booted. It would definitely allow them to provide food. They could also construct the camps. Or bridges across the border to get them the heck out of our country.
Is “national emergency” (outside of calling it what it is, an actual invasion) enough to get around posse comitatus? I don’t think so.
I wouldn’t mind it if they manned the actual border and nabbed people crossing as “invaders”. Even shot some of the real bad guys. It’s that big of a deal to me.
This was an attack on the foundation of the country by the Dems designed to unilaterally convert the country into a one party state. Most of these “migrants” are pawns for the Left which is tragic.
I don’t think PC is going to be an issue because (almost certainly) uniformed service members won’t be involved in the physical arrest of the illegals. Instead, they’ll be used in supporting – but still critical – roles regarding logistics, transportation and securing those aliens already detained pending removal. These are the resources that ICE currently doesn’t have nearly enough of. I suspect more chiefly, the military will be the instrument used for repatriation to countries that are hesitant to accept their own citizens. I’m hoping this is accomplished by LAPES. (IYKYN)
To hell with the parachutes, cram I’m on c-130s, fly low altitude and kick them off down the ramp
I also am worried about this being a “foot in the door” around posse comitatus. “They’ll only be targeting illegals,” you say. Right, like SWAT teams only target drug dealers, not always at the right address. La Migra target only illegals, but they do it with dragnets that stop every vehicle on certain roads up to 100 miles from the border. That’s not a good model for anything. And I shouldn’t need to remind you how many unconstitutional home invasions were committed by police in Massachusetts who were “only looking” for the Marathon bomber.
There were no unconstitutional home invasions in Massachusetts by the police when they were looking for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. I live approximately 30 miles north of Boston. All entries were done with the permission of the homeowners.
I know Massachusetts has a reputation of being a very liberal state, which it truly is, but this particular criticism is entirely unwarranted. It is the stuff of urban legends.
It never happened
Period
“You’re detaining people, you’re going to need to move these people and provide shelter.”
Some sort of lockdown will be necessary, maybe warehouses can be secured and used.
My understanding is that a national emergency gets around Posse Comitatus (but I have not researched it).
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/PW/PW13/20230524/115858/HHRG-118-PW13-Wstate-GoiteinE-20230524.pdf
Maybe Milhouse can weigh in, and help us find ways around legal obstacles?
It does. Posse Comitatus is poorly understood and often misrepresented by most of those who bandy it about.
There also should be both a website and hot lines to to report illegals. I suspect they will flee to sanctuary cities, costing those cities a lot more money, so much so that they will cooperate with the removal effort 🙂
The US Army was the border patrol for the first 50 years after passage of PC. The folks who wrote the law didn’t believe protecting the border violated the law.
An EO could call it an invasion. Problem solved. That might have birthright citizenship implications as well.
I agree — but it’s one thing to protect the border, and another to dragnet people who are already inside the border and have been for years.
Anyone not lawfully present in the USA whether that’s been for 6 minutes or six decades should take the easy way out and self deport. Anyone who routinely and unlawfully employed or still employs illegal aliens should go turn themselves in.
I had some cabins in NM when I lived in El Paso and was.stopped at the border patrol checkpoint on every trip. It wasn’t a huge hassle. Coastal States should be aware that they are also ‘border’ States and that a checkpoint can be set up any distance up to 100 miles from a National Boundary… boundaries such as the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans.
After Trump is installed in office, watch every kind of Democrat known assemble at the border in resistance. It will make good tv. The border is their lifeblood. Trouble with a story like this is the headline is a heads up to our enemies to establish the dominant narrative. It’s going to be a tough fight..
Deport them too
One of the things to remember is that Trump is a negotiator and knows show biz as well. This act is kind of like (very like) when Regan was waiting to take office from Jimmy Carter and started floating the possibility of war with Iran to free the hostages. He gave the impression that he not only wanted to launch missles but wanted to push the launch button personally, and with his tongue . Surprise, surprise! The Iranians released the hostages just as he took office.
I believe (hope anyhow) that Trump is looking to disuade more immigrants from coming now, and ideally to encourage many to leave before they are thrown out.
Semi-serious question:
We know that some countries will refuse to take their citizens back…. how much room is there at Quantanemo? Any other place we could use as a holding pen? Certainly anyone kept at such a place would be instantly allowed to leave as soon as they have aplace (outside the U.S.
Mexico let them through to the border. Mexico can have them back and deal with it. If they don’t, shut the border on them. Let their crops rot. Let their people stay on the Mexico side, and push the illegals through the same fence they can through. Tax every dime of remittances to Mexico at 95%.
The nonsense will end quickly.
That’s true for 2/3 ish of the illegal alien population and absolutely can be done. The other 1/3 ish of those illegally present in the USA are here from folks who overstayed the length of Student, Work and Tourist visas.
For the 1/3, so what? They are in the country illegally, They are criminals. They didn’t “overstay” because they forgot.
If they refuse to accept their countrymen back then cut off diplomatic ties and establish an economic embargo for.six months. If they haven’t gotten the message then expand it applying the embargo to any Nation conducting commerce with them for.six months. If that doesn’t work establish a physical blockade and destroy any vessel, aircraft, train or vehicle attempting to enter or exit the Nation. Starve that nation out of existence then send those being deported into now empty Nation.
Now your talking! Mexico is a thoroughly corrupt country. And this nonsense needs to end. We need to quickly remind Mexico of the relative balance of power of 1st world vs. 3rd world!
IMO it won’t be Mexico that’s the issue with this. It will be Nations in Africa, the Middle East and in South America. Applying the expanded economic embargo to their Trading partners; China and EU Nations in particular is where the real pushback will come from the globalists here in the USA. Tell US Corporations they can’t buy from or sell to China, India or the EU. Hell the AG lobby alone will go bat crap crazy, add in the Financial services and entertainment industries to see how much hell would be raised.
Insurrection Act of 1807 allows use of Military for domestic law enforcement. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock using Insurrection Act. Johnson used same Act to send ~12,000 troops , including Marines and 82nd Airborne to D.C. to quell MLK riots. If this Act is applicable for foreign invasion by illegals, I don’t know.
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