Trump confirms deportation strategy will include national emergency declaration and military

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "Trump responded early Monday: "TRUE!!!
48% : The ACLU Foundation of Southern California on Monday filed a lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seeking records that would reveal how the agency's Air Operations - its network of for-profit, commercial and privately chartered deportation flights - could be expanded to carry out a mass deportation program.
37% : On the campaign trail, Trump said his strategy would rely on military troops, friendly state and local law enforcement and wartime powers.
30% : Trump chose Tom Homan, previously the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to oversee deportations as his "border czar."
29% : During his first term, Trump bypassed Congress to divert Pentagon funds to expand the border wall by declaring a national emergency.
20% : During his last presidency, Trump deported about 1.5 million immigrants, according to a Migration Policy Institute analysis of federal figures, which the Biden administration is on pace to match.
19% : Related ACLU files lawsuit seeking details on Trump's plan for mass deportationMore broadly, Trump and his allies have conflated discussion of recently arrived migrants with the broader population of longtime undocumented immigrants, said Reichlin-Melnick.

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