Questions: Society & Politics

Trump's immigration plans are to:

1) “carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history”.

2) Withdraw birthright citizenship, bar undocumented children from schools & forcibly separating children from their parents at the border.

3) To dismantle the asylum protection system

However, any attempt to use active-duty troops to do so would be subject to legal challenges, as the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 limits the federal government’s use of the military to enforce domestic policy. Just the same, he need only to declare a "national emergency" to REQUEST states' National Guardsmen to use in ANY capacity.

Former acting ICE Director Ron Vitiello stated that the (DHS) has successfully called upon the Pentagon “many times” in the past to provide “transportation or construction as they have done before.” The military could also help ICE by conducting drone surveillance of removal targets and providing security & logistical support at migrant detention centers.

Local police are ADAMANTLY against being deputized or having to enforce federal immigration laws. They say that it will:

1. It undermines the trust and cooperation with immigrant communities. They will turn to gangs for protection exponentially making local policing more difficult.

2. Local agencies do not possess the adequate resources to enforce these laws

3. Immigration laws are very complex and the training required to understand them significantly detracts from the core mission of local police

4. Local police do not possess clear authority to enforce these laws. Even if given the authority, the federal government does not have the capacity to handle the volume of immigration violations that will occur.

5) The lack of clear authority increases the risk of civil liability for local police and government (qualified immunity).

6) Highly increases likelihood of violence against officers.