Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the 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”.

Since his decisive victory, Trump has said he intends to make good on his campaign promise to execute mass deportations, beginning on the first day of his presidency. But many aspects of what he has described as the “largest deportation program in American history” remain unclear.

Trump has previously suggested he would rely on wartime powers, military troops and sympathetic state and local leaders. Such a sprawling campaign – and the use of military personnel to carry it out – is almost certain to draw legal challenges and pushback from Democratic leaders, some of whom have already said they would refuse to cooperate with Trump’s deportation agenda.

  • toiletobserver
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    676 hours ago

    Deport everyone who arrived after 1350AD and their descendents. Make America native again

    • @Snowclone
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      114 hours ago

      The sad part is, first nations folks don’t even want to do this, they serve in the armed forces at very high rates, I don’t mean it’s sad they are very much American, I mean it’s sad that they have more respect on average for other Americans than people have respect for them.

      • ThePowerOfGeek
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        73 hours ago

        Yup. Remember that right wing asshole candidate who yelled at a native American lady to ‘go back there she came from’? You can bet he will be gleeful about these plans.

        These people are totally lacking in any self-awareness or sense of history.

    • @SarcasticMan
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      24 hours ago

      Yeah, kick them all out! My 23andme says I am 3% native American so I can say that.