Trump declares "invasion" and orders deployment of 1,500 active-duty troops to US-Mexico border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Read moreSenate Democrats overwhelmingly vote with Republicans to advance fascistic anti-immigrant bill9 January 2025Senate Democrats provide key votes to fast-track Trump's mass detention plan19
55% : President Trump directed action from the Department of Defense on securing our nation's borders and made clear he expects immediate results.
54% : In addition to operating drones and helicopters, the ground troops will be augmented by the Pentagon's Transportation Command, which will use military aircraft to airlift more than 5,000 human beings currently detained by Customs and Border Protection (CPB) out of the United States.
42% : Since being sworn in on Monday, Trump has used the power of the presidency to declare a "national emergency" and order the Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to prioritize defending the "sovereignty" of the US from an alleged "invasion" of immigrants.
38% : In a statement published Wednesday following Trump's latest anti-immigrant executive order, Salesses wrote that under his direction the Department of Defense had established a "Task Force" to "expedite" the implementation of Trump's executive orders, which includes deploying "US military forces to carry out directed missions called for by the President.
37% : On Wednesday, following a series of anti-immigrant executive orders issued by President Donald Trump, acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses announced the Pentagon is deploying more active-duty troops to the US-Mexico border in furtherance of Trump's plans to carry out the "largest deportation operation" in US history.
37% : On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order suspending "the physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion of the United States through the southern border.
34% : That could change, however, if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act of 1807 which empowers the president to deploy US military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States to suppress a "civil disorder" or "rebellion."
31% : As part of his executive orders, Trump revealed that he would decide within the next 90 days whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act.
28% : "Far from offering any resistance to Trump's plans to deploy the military on US soil against immigrants and their families, Democrats are providing Trump the legal framework to detain and deport tens of thousands more people.

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