Trump confirms plans to use the military to assist in mass deportations - West Hawaii Today

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.
48% : "Homan told The New York Times in 2023 that he had met with Trump shortly after the now president-elect announced that he would seek office again.
43% : 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.
41% : Hard-right members of Congress and staunch supporters of Trump have expressed broad support for the proposal for mass deportations.
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.
32% : "Around 4 a.m., Trump reposted Fitton's post with the comment, "TRUE!!!
31% : Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., chimed in Monday on social media to back using the military for such an effort, saying Trump was "100% correct.
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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