President-elect plans to declare a national emergency for undocumented immigrants with help of hardline cabinet

Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.

In an early morning social media post, Trump responded “TRUE!!!” to a post by Tom Fitton, the president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, who wrote on 8 November that the next administration “will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program”.

Since his decisive victory, Trump has said he intends to make good on his campaign promise to execute mass deportations, beginning on the first day of his presidency. But many aspects of what he has described as the “largest deportation program in American history” remain unclear.

Trump has previously suggested he would rely on wartime powers, military troops and sympathetic state and local leaders. Such a sprawling campaign – and the use of military personnel to carry it out – is almost certain to draw legal challenges and pushback from Democratic leaders, some of whom have already said they would refuse to cooperate with Trump’s deportation agenda.

    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
      25·
      30 days ago

      The sad part is, first nations folks don’t even want to do this, they serve in the armed forces at very high rates, I don’t mean it’s sad they are very much American, I mean it’s sad that they have more respect on average for other Americans than people have respect for them.

      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        30 days ago

        Yup. Remember that right wing asshole candidate who yelled at a native American lady to ‘go back there she came from’? You can bet he will be gleeful about these plans.

        These people are totally lacking in any self-awareness or sense of history.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      43·
      28 days ago

      Seems arbitrary, as a date. Deport everyone whose ancestors immigrated. That’s the ‘first’ nations, too.

      • toiletobserver@lemmy.world
        3·
        28 days ago

        Not entirely arbitrary. I tried to pick a date before the majority of Europeans immigrated. The goal was to point out the absurdity of the original idea by taking it to an extreme.