Washington. Donald Trump said he will use the National Guard as part of a plan to deport millions of migrants from across the United States if he wins this year’s presidential election, indicating that he is intensifying his anti-immigration rhetoric, something that fueled his previous rise to power.
Trump’s remarks came during a lengthy in-person and telephone interview with Time magazine a few days ago. The dispatch was published online on Tuesday.
Trump did not say how exactly he would carry out the deportation operations and what role the National Guard would play. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said he was not opposed to using active-duty military if necessary, but that he thought the National Guard would do the job.
“If I think things are getting out of control, I would have no problem using the army,” he said. “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.”
U.S. military forces — both the National Guard and active-duty soldiers — have historically been used at the border to support immigration personnel. However, using National Guard elements, or active-duty soldiers, to directly assist in the deportation of immigrants, especially in the interior of the country, would be a drastic escalation of their use in the immigration field and would likely would be the subject of legal challenges.
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