Trump confirms plans to use the military to assist in mass deportations - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Trump has signaled his intent to follow through on his promises with personnel announcements.
55% : During his first term, for example, Trump invoked this power to spend more on a border wall than Congress had been willing to authorize.
45% : And Trump said he would make Thomas Homan, who ran ICE for the first year and a half of the first Trump administration and was an early proponent of separating families to deter migrants, his administration's "border czar."
33% : One major impediment to the vast deportation operation that the Trump team has promised in his second term is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, lacks the space to hold a significantly larger number of detainees than it currently does.
19% : On his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump responded overnight to a post made this month by Tom Fitton, who runs conservative group Judicial Watch and who wrote that Trump's administration would "declare a national emergency and will use military assets" to address illegal immigration "through a mass deportation program.

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