President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Monday that he plans to declare a national emergency on border security and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
Immigration was a top issue in the election campaign, and Trump has promised to deport millions of people and freeze the border with Mexico after record numbers of migrants crossed illegally during President Joe Biden’s administration.
On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump promoted a recent post from a conservative activist that said the president-elect is “ready to declare a national emergency and use the military to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.” Will use the property.”
Along with the repost, Trump commented, “True!”
Trump made a remarkable comeback to the presidency by defeating Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.
He is announcing a Cabinet comprised of immigration hard-liners, naming former Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting chief Tom Homan as his “border czar.”
Homan appeared at the Republican National Convention in July, telling supporters: “I’ve got a message for the millions of illegal immigrants left in our country by Joe Biden: You better start packing right now.”
Authorities estimate that approximately 11 million people are living in the United States illegally. Trump’s deportation plan is expected to directly impact approximately 20 million families.
While the US government has struggled for years to manage its southern border with Mexico, Trump has raised concerns by claiming there is an “invasion” of migrants he says are raping and killing Americans. Will murder.
During his campaign, Trump repeatedly railed against undocumented immigrants, made inflammatory statements about foreigners “poisoning the bloodstream” of the United States, and misled his audience about immigration statistics and policy. .
Trump has not detailed his immigration crackdown, but repeatedly vowed during his election campaign to invoke the Alien Enemy Act of 1798 to speed up deportations.
Critics say the law is outdated and its most recent use was during World War II to place Japanese-Americans in internment camps without due process.
The number of U.S. Border Patrol encounters with immigrants coming illegally from Mexico is now nearly the same in 2020 as it was in the last year of Trump’s first term, after reaching a record 250,000 in the month of December 2023.
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