The President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, confirmed its intention to declare the national emergency For mobilize the army so that they collaborate in their mass deportation plans of undocumented immigrants, who number 11 million.
The national emergency will grant the Republican extraordinary powers to enforce what he has already called in the past as “the largest expulsion operation” in history of the United States.
The tycoon confirmed this information on his social network Truth Social, in which he reacted with a “TRUE!” to a message from conservative activist Tom Fitton, who revealed that the new administration was considering “declaring a national emergency and using military means” to carry out the evictions.
For now, Donald T.’s team.Trump has not publicly given specific details on how these deportations will be carried out, even though that was one of his main goals. promises during the election campaign.
According to reports The New York Times, The Trump administration is consideringdevelop a form of expulsion without procedural guarantees called accelerated expulsion, which is currently used near the border for recent arrivals and in the case of people who already live in the United States and cannot prove that they have lived in the country for more than two years.
In addition, they also plan stop issuing documents confirming citizenship, such as passports and social security cards, to babies born domestically to undocumented immigrant parents, with the aim of ending birthright citizenship.
Trump has already shown signs of implementing all of these measures with two appointments: Stephen Miller, as his government’s deputy chief of staff and a hardliner on immigration, and Tom Homan, next head of immigration policy and known as border tsar for being the ideologue for the separation of thousands of children from their families in the first Trump administration.
National emergency
To implement this plan, the Republican plans to use the National Emergencies Act of 1976which gives the president extraordinary powers and allows him to bypass Congress to implement measures against what must be perceived as a threat to the security of the United States.
It must be remembered that the Congress gives presidents broad powers to declare national emergencies at their discretion, unlocking powers that include, but are not limited to, redirecting funds that lawmakers had set aside for other purposes. For example, during his first term, Trump already invoked this power to redirect billions of dollars allocated to the Pentagon towards the construction of the border wall with Mexico, a measure which was the subject of multiple lawsuits.
During his campaign, Trump also promised to mobilize National Guard Reservists to support deportations and even suggested moving troops stationed overseas to the U.S. southern border to enforce the country’s immigration laws.
These measures would represent a significant change in the role that the armed forces have played until now, since US law strictly prohibits the use of the military for domestic surveillance tasks, as detailed on its website by the Brennan Center for Justice.
11 million undocumented immigrants
An estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States and these mass deportation plans could affect 20 million families, many of them have U.S. citizen members, according to the migrant advocacy organization. The Voice of America.
These evictions could cost billions of dollars per year and cause labor shortage in key sectors of the economy that depend on undocumented migrants, such as agriculture or the service sector.
