Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are formulating plans to execute his promise of mass deportations once he assumes office, potentially involving a national emergency declaration to repurpose assets from the Pentagon to detain and deport illegal immigrants.
The idea of using a national emergency has been floated in the past, and implementing such a declaration, according to a Wall Street Journal report, would “repurpose military assets,” allowing the new administration “to detain and remove migrants.”
Trump has, for months on the campaign trail, vowed to invoke the Alien Enemies Act if elected, a wartime law that would allow the president to authorize the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants over the age of 14.
And he has been unwavering in his promise to restart border wall construction, which was halted by the Biden administration, while launching a mass deportation program once he returns to the White House.
The Journal writes:
“As a first step, Trump’s advisers are discussing issuing a national emergency declaration at the border on his first day in office, which his team thinks would allow him to move money from the Pentagon to pay for wall construction and to assist with immigrant detention and deportation.”
They state that the behind-the-scenes discussions are already underway.
These same advisers note that the declaration would also “unlock the ability to use military bases for immigrant detention and military planes to help carry out deportations.”
WSJ: Trump advisers are crafting plans to fulfill his mass deportation promise and considering a national emergency declaration that would enable the new administration to redirect military resources for the detention and deportation of migrants. pic.twitter.com/yPTz7CMift
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 9, 2024
There is a 100 percent chance that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will define military bases used for detaining illegal aliens as ‘concentration camps,’ which somehow disappeared under President Joe Biden, but are sure to make a big comeback with Democrats raging over their imported voter base being sent back from whence they came.
On the plus side, AOC will have a couple of months to work on her sad panda photo-op face.
I’ll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents,& caged them.
More kids died after this. To date, no one has been held accountable.
We need to save these kids. https://t.co/HhdMqc5zML
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 25, 2019
The discussions indicate advisers are very early in the planning stage and all ideas are in flux. But the WSJ report seems to point to a very serious operation being formulated. And it will be implemented very quickly after Inauguration Day.
The administration will first focus its efforts on illegal aliens who have already received final deportation orders from an immigration court. A reasonable move that should be fairly easy to kickstart, removing 1.3 million illegals from the country.
President-elect Trump has relentlessly insisted on not only stopping the flow of illegal immigration across both the southern and northern borders, but reversing it.
In an interview this past March, Trump vowed to begin mass deportations on “day one.”
“We have no choice,” he said. “And we’ll start with the bad ones.”
“They [illegal aliens] … come from prisons and mental institutions,” he said during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “They’re killing our people. They’re killing our country. We have no choice!”
Trump vows to carry out MASS DEPORTATIONS, crowd erupts in applause:
“It will be the largest deportation in the history of our country…They’re killing our people. They’re killing our country. We have no choice!” pic.twitter.com/1rh9b4FWay
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 24, 2024
The WSJ report notes that there are questions as to how President-elect Trump will implement his plans, even questioning the “legality” of these moves.
The Alien Enemies Act, part of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, will be used, Trump has previously said, to end “the scourge of illegal alien gang violence once and for all.”
President Trump will invoke the Alien Enemies Act to remove all known and suspected cartel members from the United States, and deploy the U.S. Navy to impose a full naval embargo on the cartels! pic.twitter.com/2AgAp9AhmB
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 25, 2023
The Act is not without its controversies.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the authority granted in the Act to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II.
The law states that a president may order non-citizens “to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies” when he or she is deemed as coming from a “hostile nation.”
Democrats will no doubt attempt to fight back against using the Act, and any declaration of a national emergency, though with Trump having likely control of both Houses of Congress, it would remain to be seen if they can stop him.
RedState’s Margaret Clark reports that the deportation plans are already receiving pushback in the form of massive protests in New York.
Clark revealed that the thousands marching in the streets are protesting against mass deportation and “systematic oppression,” with many carrying signs accusing Trump of being racist, fascist, sexist, anti-gay, and anti-trans.To see videos of the chaos on the streets of Manhattan, please check out her report (which is linked above).
