Trump offers more details about using National Guard, military to implement mass deportation

2F13YCR President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the 450th mile of the new border wall Tuesday Jan. 12 2021 near the Texas Mexico border.

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Will President Donald Trump utilize the U.S. military to carry out mass deportations of illegal migrants in 2025 if he is reelected to lead the country? This singular, loud question from the media has followed the president for months after initially announcing his plan to follow in the footsteps of the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who kick-started a deportation operation in the late 1950s that removed around one million illegal entrants.

It’s no secret that the United States is being crushed by the ongoing illegal immigration crisis. Since Joe Biden took office, more than seven million illegals have entered the United States – and those are just the official numbers from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and President Donald Trump have both postulated that the “real” number is likely somewhere closer to 15 or 16 million, presenting a startling reality: the number of illegal migrants in the United States has surpassed the population of dozens of smaller states combined.

It doesn’t help that Joe Biden has taken “64 executive actions” to halt Trump-era immigration policies that had ebbed the tide of overwhelming illegal migration at the southern border, according to Speaker Johnson.

In Trump’s interview with TIME, he pointed out that what America is experiencing is an “invasion” and noted that he would utilize the National Guard to defend the border.

He explained, “I think the National Guard would be able to do that. If they weren’t able to, then I’d use the military.  You know, we have a different situation. We have millions of people now that we didn’t have two years ago.”

TIME writer Eric Cortellessa pointed out that the Posse Comitatus Act “says that you can’t deploy U.S. military against civilians.” Trump’s response was succinct: “Well, these aren’t civilians. These are people that aren’t legally in our country. This is an invasion of our country.”

The 45th president also noted that he could see himself “using the National Guard, and, if necessary, I’d have to go a step further.”

He added, “We have to do whatever we have to do to stop the problem we have. Again, we have a major force that’s forming in our country, when you see that over the last three weeks, 29,000 people came in from China, and they’re all fighting age, and they’re mostly males. Yeah, you have to do what you have to do to stop crime and to stop what’s taking place at the border.”

Trump also pushed back on the notion of building “new migrant detention camps” because, obviously, “there wouldn’t be much of a need for them because of the fact that we’re going to be moving them out.”

The president said that the deportation operation would first take aim at the “criminal element” in the United States that has moved in illegally and that he would rely heavily on “local police” to partner with his administration in that area.

Lastly, Trump hinted at utilizing financial incentives to motivate police departments to participate in the nationwide operation to move illegal entrants out of the country, while further reiterating his intention to provide “immunity” for policy authorities so that they could better carry out their jobs.

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