Wow! President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed that on the first day of his presidency, he will declare a national emergency and use the US military to conduct mass deportations.
More and more people are worried about Donald Trump’s plan to deport a lot of people, especially now that he was re-elected as President.
During his first term as president as No. 45, Donald Trump talked about his plans to stop people from coming to the U.S. illegally. He even put plans into action to build a huge wall along the southern border between the US and Mexico.
As No. 47, Donald Trump promised to keep building his wall. He now confirms that on Day 1 of his presidency, he will declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out his campaign promise to deport a lot of people living in the U.S. illegally.
Early Monday morning (November 18), Donald Trump responded to a social media post by Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch.
Fitton had earlier this month said that there were rumors that the new administration was planning to declare a national emergency and use “military” assets to deport illegal immigrants.
Feel free to share this post on Truth Social on November 8: “GOOD NEWS: Reports are the incoming @RealDonaldTrump administration is ready to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the [Joe] Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.” Ten days later, Trump changed his mind about what Fitton said and said, “TRUE!!!”
Before Tom Fitton’s Truth Social post, Donald Trump said he would start deporting a lot of people as soon as he took office. Toward the end of the 2024 presidential race, Trump made his promise at a rally in Madison Square Garden.
He said, “To get the criminals out of the country, I will start the biggest deportation program in U.S. history on Day 1.” I will save every city and town that has been attacked and taken over.
These cruel and murderous criminals will be put in jail, and our country will be rid of them as quickly as possible.
To keep his promise, Trump has already started to do things like putting people in key Cabinet positions who share his strict views on immigration.
Tom Homan, who used to be the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was named “Border Czar,” and Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, was chosen to be Homeland Security secretary while the Senate confirms her.
Homan has already said some very harsh things about how mass deportations might look in the United States.
He has already said that the country would first focus on getting rid of criminals and threats to national security. When asked if officials would split up families, he joked that they could be sent back to their home countries together.
An estimated 11 million people are living in the U.S. without legal immigration status, according to ABC News.
According to the American Immigration Council, getting rid of all of them could cost billions of dollars every year. Also, deporting a lot of people could have a bigger effect on the economy, causing tax revenues to drop and job shortages.
Alfonso Aguilar, former Chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship and Director of Hispanic Engagement at the American Principles Project, responded to Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to declare a national emergency and use the U.S. military to deport a lot of people on the first day of his presidency.
“The country is not going to be militarized,” Aguilar told Fox News Digital. Neighborhoods with a lot of immigrants will not become more militarized. He went on to say, “The left and many in the media spread fear a lot.”
There will not be a sweep of the neighborhoods; instead, people will be arrested based on their specific crimes. It is likely that the military will be involved in some way to help. You are holding people, so you will need to move them and give them a place to stay.
He also said that Trump is limited by federal law in how he can use the U.S. military in the United States. He said that ICE agents will likely lead these mass deportation efforts with help from the military with logistics.
One example is putting the military at the border to look like extra help and to be the eyes and ears for the Border Patrol officers who are there.
Aguilar also said, “That is how we have always used the military.” They use force to keep people from coming in, but their main job is to help find migrants and get them on buses, as well as provide all the other necessary support.
They are not going to send the military into neighborhoods to look for illegal immigrants.
Aguilar also said that ICE agents would be better off raiding workplaces and that U.S. military logistics would be better off holding and transporting migrants who have been arrested by ICE.