“I consider it an invasion of our country. We’re going to use the National Guard and we’re going to go as far as I’m allowed, based on the laws of the land,” Trump said
US President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with Time magazine that he will use the US military, to the extent permitted by law, to implement his mass deportation plan.
When asked about the law that broadly prohibits the use of the military to enforce the law inside the country, Trump said illegal immigration amounts to an invasion that must be stopped.
“I consider it an invasion of our country“, the Republican tycoon said in his interview. “We will use the National Guard and proceed as far as I am allowed, based on the laws of the land“, he said.
On the campaign trail, Trump portrayed immigrants as dangerous criminals and promised to crack down on both legal and illegal immigration with mass deportations. He plans to pull resources from across the federal government and declare a state of emergency to free up money for his plan, Reuters reported in November.
Republican and Democratic administrations have previously used the National Guard to help guard the border with Mexico, but not to arrest immigrants. The Trump administration plans to use the military in a similar, supportive role, Tom Homan, the next border “czar,” told Fox News on Sunday. “We would like (the Ministry of Defense) to help us in many areas, in transport and building infrastructure, intelligence gathering and targeting. But the arrests will be made by immigration officialss”, he emphasized.
Trump did not rule out building new detention facilities to house the immigrants until they are deported. But he said his government’s goal is to move the deportation process quickly, limiting the need to build camps or other sites.
“I don’t want them to sit in a camp for years to come. I want them gone and the countries have to take them back“, he said.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, there were approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US in January 2022, a number that has likely increased since then.
The pro-immigration American Council on Immigration estimates that the cost of deporting all illegal immigrants will reach $1 trillion. dollars or more in a decade.
Source :Skai
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