The future president of the United States will carry out mass expulsions with the help of governors
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Jim Cason and David Brooks
Correspondents
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, p. 21
Washington and New York. Future President Donald Trump confirmed yesterday that he will declare a state of emergency as a result of the national crisis triggered by the situation on the border with Mexico, and will use the armed forces to carry out the mass deportations of undocumented immigrants that he promised during his campaign.
For more than a year, Stephen Miller, advisor and architect of Trump’s anti-immigrant policies, has repeated that he is developing plans to request Republican governors in several states to deploy National Guard troops (those of each entity are commanded by the governors). in order to assist in the effort to arrest, establish detention centers and ultimately deport many of the 11 million irregular immigrants living in the country. Miller was recently appointed by Trump as deputy chief of staff for policy.
Yesterday morning Trump responded It’s true to a comment on social networks by Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, where he described that the Trump government will use military resources to reverse Biden’s (migrant) invasion through a mass deportation program. Fitton, whose group played a key role in installing three ultra-conservative justices on the Supreme Court during Trump’s first term, added that the mogul is prepared to declare a national emergency in order to facilitate this great effort.
The Republican has promised to start deportations day one, or shortly after before his presidency begins on January 20, but to date he has not offered details on how he will obtain the funds and personnel for an effort of this magnitude. Leaders of both parties have used national emergency declarations in the past to funnel funds appropriated by Congress for one purpose and devote them to another.
The governor of Oklahoma commented last Friday that he will launch a pilot project this month to turn over imprisoned undocumented immigrants to federal immigration authorities, in preparation for mass deportation efforts. We want to be the first state to work with President TrumpGovernor Kevin Stitt informed the Washington Examiner. “Right now, we have over 500 people incarcerated in Oklahoma who have broken the law, who are criminals, and they are also illegal. “We would love to get them out of the state of Oklahoma and the country.”
Unconstitutional measure, says America’s Voice
Critics emphasize that a declaration of emergency and the mobilization of armed forces to carry out a mass deportation is illegal. There is no law that allows a president to declare an emergency and then use the military to do anything, much less enforce immigration law domestically.mentioned the migrant rights defense group America’s Voice. The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday filed a lawsuit against Joe Biden’s government to obtain more details about how undocumented immigrants have been deported in recent years in order to prepare the fight in court against the mass deportation plan. of the next government.
Since the election, Republican leaders have also begun to publicly acknowledge that migrant labor is urgently needed and running out of it would seriously harm the national economy. We need work visas and encourage legal immigrationdeclared the Republican president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, to CNN yesterday. Thomas Hornan, appointed border tsar In the next government, he has said that mass deportations will begin with undocumented immigrants who are imprisoned or who have violated the law. Trump commented something similar in an interview with the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal shortly before the election.
Judicial Watch leader Fitton, whose tweet was the one Trump used yesterday to confirm his plans for mass deportations, responded to those who argue that the president cannot declare a national emergency in the immigration context. Does anyone argue that the invasion is not a national emergency?he asked on the right-wing news program Newsmax yesterday.