AP Report: Trump Considering Ordering National Guard To Round Up Immigrants For Deportation
The White House is attempting to deny an Associated Press report that the Trump administration is considering a plan to use the National Guard to arrest immigrants who are undocumented.
The AP report cites a draft memo that proposes mobilizing 100,000 National Guard troops to round up undocumented people for deportation.
The AP report said, “The 11-page document calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement as far north as Portland, Oregon, and as far east as New Orleans, Louisiana.
Four states that border on Mexico are included in the proposal — California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — but it also encompasses seven states contiguous to those four — Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.”
According to the memo, the Governors in each state would have a choice about whether their National Guard troops would participate.
The AP also reported, “The memo is addressed to the then-acting heads of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It would serve as guidance to implement the wide-ranging executive order on immigration and border security that President Donald Trump signed Jan. 25.”
