In an early morning post on Truth Social, Donald Trump confirmed plans to declare a national emergency in order to use the military to facilitate mass deportations. From Lauren Gambino at The Guardian:
Donald Trump said on Monday his administration would declare a national emergency and use US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. In an early morning social media post, Trump responded ‘TRUE!!!’ to a post by Tom Fitton, the president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, who wrote on 8 November that the next administration ‘will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program’
There are scant details about how this scheme will be implemented, but Trump has installed a number of loyalists, including Tom Homan, who Trump assumes will be able to manage what analysts say is a nearly impossible task.
