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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite House confirms Trump is considering using the military to remove immigrants
White House confirms Trump is considering using the military to remove immigrants
White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley waffled on Fox News, but didn't rule it out.
Zack Ford
May 17, 2019, 10:32 am
White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley downplayed reports Friday that the Trump administration was considering invoking the Insurrection Act to remove immigrants from the country but he didnt rule out that it was still on the table.
There are lots of tools at [President Donald Trumps] disposal, Gidley said, speaking with Fox & Friends. We havent used them all and were looking at ways to protect the American people.
Gidleys comments were received warmly by the live studio audience which applauded enthusiastically about the idea of using the military to force out undocumented immigrants at gunpoint.
That would be great, host Brian Kilmeade responded. Last time we used [the Insurrection Act], I believe, was the L.A. riots where the military came in and said we are going to need military presence there. The military is there [at the border] but they cant do as much as they want.
Sixty-three people were killed and 2,383 were injured in the 1992 Los Angeles riots Kilmeade referenced Friday, after police and military forces were deployed to snuff out riots and protests against the acquittal of several police officers involved in the brutal beating of a black man, Rodney King, whose arrest one year earlier was captured on video.
Gidleys comments come one day after Trump announced his new immigration plan, and hours after conservative outlet The Daily Caller reported that Trump plans to invoke the Insurrection Act to remove undocumented immigrants from the country using military force. The report cited multiple senior administration officials who said the White House was doing the Insurrection Act.
Under the Insurrection Act of 1807, the president has the authority to use military force within the countrys borders, but only in the very specific instances of insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy. It can also be invoked in disaster scenarios, but only if there is such widespread domestic violence that local authorities cannot maintain public order.
The presence of undocumented immigrants in the country in no way meets these qualifications. One of the officials who spoke to The Daily Caller seemed to recognize that Trump would surely face legal challenges if he actually tried to invoke the act, but they were also optimistic that the Supreme Court would side with Trump as it did in upholding his Muslim travel ban.
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https://thinkprogress.org/white-house-trump-insurrection-act-military-force-remove-undocumented-immigrants-241807ab2572/
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White House confirms Trump is considering using the military to remove immigrants (Original Post)
babylonsister
May 2019
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. ... can we use the military to also remove tRump! n/t
Response to RKP5637 (Reply #1)
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CatMor
(6,212 posts)3. He is totally obsessed with immigrants ...
it's beyond crazy. He seems to forget two of his wife's are immigrants.
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)4. So now it's just 'immigrants'?
And not just those who are undocumented?
I wonder if that was a slip?
genxlib
(5,542 posts)5. They have no clue how bad this would be
It is evil on a moral level but they don't get how bad it will look.
The optics of military personnel in residential areas dragging people out of their homes would be unspeakably bad for them. There are Pulitzers reserved for a few photographers waiting to get those pics.
Liberalhammer
(576 posts)6. Then they can be turned on the rest of us
On the non-immigrant population easily once deployed around the nation.
Dark days indeed.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)7. His racist hate knows no bounds
What a fucker.
2naSalit
(86,802 posts)8. That's no lie!! ...nt