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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump memo proposes deploying 100,000 National Guard troops to round up immigrants
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/donald-trump-1/2017/02/17/trump-admin-considers-mobilizing-100000-national-guard-troops-round-unauthorized-immigrantsThe Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press.
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.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)do as much harm to Obama fans as possible.
kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)They are there for national emergency. Thus is no emergency but the ravings of an insane man.
procon
(15,805 posts)It limits the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. Bush deployed Guard units, but they could not be directly involved in any law enforcement activities, that still had to be done by the Border Patrol.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)10 U.S. Code § 332 - Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority
10 U.S. Code § 311 - Militia: composition and classes
(b) The classes of the militia are
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
10 U.S. Code § 333 - Interference with State and Federal law
(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or
(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R._5122_(2006)
louis-t
(23,295 posts)rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)The Not My President rallies/marches are supposed to happen Monday on Presidents' Day. I could see them attacking those groups knowing that there will be a concentration of minorities there...they are trying to scare the crowds/public from attending, no doubt.