Trump says he would use the National Guard to deport immigrants if he wins the election

donald trump said he would use the National Guard as part of a plan to deport millions of migrants at all U.S if he wins this year’s presidential elections, indicating that he is intensifying his anti-independence rhetoric. immigrationsomething that fueled his previous rise to power.

Trump’s comments came during a lengthy in-person and phone interview with Time magazine a few days ago. The order was published online on Tuesday.

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Trump did not say exactly how he would carry out the deportation operations and what role the National guard. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said he was not opposed to using active-duty military personnel if necessary, but that he thought the National Guard would do the job.

“If I think things are getting out of control, I would have no problem using the army”, he commented. “We have to have security in our country. We need to have law and order in our country. And whatever gets us there, but I think the National Guard will do the job”.

U.S. military forces – both the National Guard and active-duty soldiers – have historically been used at the border to support immigration personnel. However, using elements of the National Guard, or soldiers on active duty, to directly assist in the deportation of immigrantsespecially in the interior of the country, it would represent a drastic escalation of its use in the field of immigration and would probably be the subject of legal challenges.

During Trump’s first term, the Department of Homeland Security He considered using members of the National Guard to detain unauthorized immigrants, but the plans did not come to fruition.

Presidents have used troops, often from the National Guard, to reinforce border security in different ways. The former president George W. Bush called on elements of the National Guard to reinforce security along the southwest border in “Operation Jumpstart“, while the “Operation Falange” by former president Barack Obama He also used members of the National Guard in a similar manner.

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The presidents Joe Biden It is donald trump They also used active-duty soldiers and members of the National Guard to reinforce border security and assist with immigration-related tasks.

But these forces at the border have been used in specific and restricted ways, such as in data recording, surveillance or support work in warehouses, or to provide logistical support so that they do not interact directly with immigrants and in other designated tasks. to free up immigration staff to do their jobs.

When it comes to finding and removing people from the country, this is typically the responsibility of the Enforcement and Removal Operations branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They identify, arrest, detain and expel people who have been determined to have no right to remain in the country.

This can often be a long and expensive process because deportations are often done by plane and because many countries do not accept returning migrants.

Federal law generally prohibits the use of active duty service members for police work within U.Sunless specifically authorized by Congress.

When Trump was asked whether he would lift restrictions on the use of US military forces against civilians, Trump responded that the people who would be targeted are not civilians.

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“These are people who are not legally in our country. This is an invasion of our country. An invasion like probably no other country has seen before“Trump commented to the magazine.

Trump has made combating immigration a central theme of his re-election campaign, repeating a strategy that worked for him when he first ran for office.

He accused migrants of “poison the country’s blood“Is called”animals”For people who are in the United States illegally and are suspected of having committed crimes. He promised to eliminate birthright citizenship and reimpose restrictions on traveler arrivals that originally applied to seven Muslim-majority nations.

Source: Elcomercio

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