Trump wants to use the military for mass deportations. Can he actually do that?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : But Trump has a few avenues through which he could activate the military and its resources.
48% : At that point, their concern was that Trump could have used the Insurrection Act to interfere with the certification of the 2020 election results.
43% : As Mirasola writes in Lawfare, Trump has a nonemergency power under federal law to request the assistance of state national guards in a federal military mission.
41% : That is to say, while advocates may challenge Trump on whether the two key criteria for invoking the law have been met, the law gives presidents a wide berth — and the courts little power.
40% : Trump has in some ways appeared to begin building his case for invoking the Insurrection Act through his rhetoric on the campaign trail this year by describing an “invasion of criminals” coming across the border.
39% : But Mirasola said it would be harder for Trump to argue that it is impracticable to enforce immigration laws through the “ordinary course of judicial proceedings.”
39% : Mirasola writes that, to do so, Trump could invoke federal law allowing the secretary of defense to “undertake military construction projects ... not otherwise authorized by law that are necessary to support” the armed forces in a national emergency.
38% : On Monday, Trump responded to a post on his social media network Truth Social, claiming that he would “declare a national emergency and will use military assets” to carry out mass deportations, saying it was “TRUE!!!”It’s not immediately clear what he means by that: whether he intends for the military to enforce the nation’s immigration laws, for military funds to be redirected toward supporting mass deportations, or something else.
36% : According to the New York Times, Trump is planning to invoke the Insurrection Act to bring in the military to carry out mass deportations.
34% : Immigrants might also file suits arguing their constitutional protections against unlawful searches were violated: Doris Meissner, senior fellow and director of the US Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, said mass deportations of the scale Trump is imagining would likely involve “violations of people’s civil rights, profiling, all of those kinds of harms that poor policing brings about.”
32% : ”Mirasola said Trump would have a “relatively easy time” making the case that cartels trafficking immigrants across the border constitute an “unlawful obstruction” to the enforcement of US immigration law.
31% : If Trump declares a national emergency with respect to immigration, that law would essentially allow him to bypass the need for congressional approval to get the funds he needs to construct these holding facilities.
27% : There are other potential authorities that Trump could invoke to surge military resources to his mass deportation plan.

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