Former President Donald Trump vowed to deliver the “largest mass deportation effort” in American history if elected in November.
“For an operation of that scale,” Time Magazine wrote following an interview with the 45th president, “Trump says he would rely mostly on the National Guard to round up and remove undocumented migrants throughout the country. ‘If they weren’t able to, then I’d use [other parts of] the military,’ he says. When I ask if that means he would override the Posse Comitatus Act — an 1878 law that prohibits the use of military force on civilians—Trump seems unmoved by the weight of the statute.”
The Trump campaign, according to the New York Post, has not detailed what resources would be deployed to detain and deport “nearly 20 million” illegal migrants currently residing in the U.S.
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