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donald trump He said he would use National Guard as part of a plan to deport millions of migrants from all over the United States if he wins this year’s presidential election, indicating that he is stepping up his anti-immigration rhetoric, something that fueled his previous rise to power.
Trump’s remarks came during a lengthy interview in person and by phone with the magazine time some days ago. The interview was published online this Tuesday.
Trump did not say how exactly he would carry out the deportation operations and what role the National Guard would play. The virtual Republican presidential candidate noted that He was not opposed to using active duty military if necessary, but he thought the National Guard would do the job.
“If I consider that 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 have to have law and order in our country. And whatever gets us there, but I think the National Guard will get the job done.”
Can the US National Guard deport migrants?
U.S. military forces—both the National Guard and active-duty soldiers—have historically been used on the border to support security personnel. immigration. However, making use of National Guard elements, or active duty soldiers, to directly assist in the deportation of immigrantsespecially in the interior of the country, would be a drastic escalation of its use in the field of immigration and would probably be subject to legal challenges.
During Trump’s first term, the Department of Homeland Security considered using the National Guard to detain unauthorized immigrants, but the plans did not materialize.
Presidents have used troops, often from the National Guard, to reinforce the border security in different ways. Former President George W. Bush called on National Guard elements to bolster security along the southwest border in “Operation Jumpstart,” while the former president’s “Operation Phalanx” Barack Obama He also used members of the National Guard in a similar manner.
The presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump They have also used active-duty soldiers and elements of the National Guard to reinforce border security and assist in immigration-related tasks.
But those forces on the border have been used in a specific and restricted waysuch as in data recording, in surveillance or support tasks in warehouses, or to provide logistical support so that do not interact directly with immigrants and on other tasks designed to free up immigration staff to do their jobs.
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What does the United States Immigration Law say?
When it comes to finding and deporting people from the country, that is usually the responsibility of the law enforcement branch. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Enforcement and Removal Operations. They identify, arrest, detain and expel people who have been determined not to have the 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 return migrants.
The Federal law generally prohibits the use of active-duty service members for policing within the United States.unless specifically authorized by Congress.
When Trump was asked if he would lift restrictions on the use of U.S. military forces against civilians, Trump responded that the people who would be targeted They are not civilians.
“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 told the magazine.
Trump has made the fight against immigration a central theme of his re-election campaignrepeating a strategy that worked for him when he first ran for office.
He has accused the migrants of “poison the blood of the country” and called “animals” people who are in the United States illegally and are suspected of having committed crimes. He has promised eliminate birthright citizenship and reimpose restrictions on the arrival of travelers that originally applied to seven Muslim-majority nations.
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