President-elect Donald Trump reinforced his plan to use the military to deport migrants who entered the US irregularly and said he will use the military “to the maximum extent permitted by law” for deportations.
US law says the military cannot be used to enforce domestic laws without an act of Congress.
Trump told Time magazine in an interview published this Thursday (12), carried out last month, that he believes that irregular immigration to the US can be categorized as “an invasion of our country”.
The Republican said he would request the use of the National Guard and local police to support military efforts to deport migrants.
Trump also suggested he may build new detention centers to house migrants, even as he negotiates with other nations to take in deported migrants, and again threatened allies with tariffs if they did not agree to take in migrants deported from the US.
“Whatever it takes to get them out. I’m not bothered. Honestly, whatever it takes to get them out. Again, I will do this absolutely within the bounds of the law, but if I need new centers [de detenção]but I hope we don’t need too many because I want to get them out, and I don’t want them to be downtown for the next 20 years,” he said.
“I want them out, and the countries have to take them back, and if they don’t take them back, we won’t do business with those countries, and we will tax them substantially. When they ship products, they will incur substantial tariffs, and this will make it very difficult for them to do business with us,” he continued.
Trump reiterated his pledge not to separate families with mixed immigration status, saying he would “rather deport them together.”
This content was originally published in Trump promises to use the military for deportations “up to the maximum level allowed” on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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