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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Trump administration considers mobilizing as many as 100,000 National Guard troops... [View all]struggle4progress
(118,268 posts)Garance Burke / AP
10:46 AM EST
... The Associated Press reported this morning that an 11-page document would call for the National Guard to be called up in 11 states, including some not along the Mexican border, to round up undocumented immigrants.
The memo was written by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, according to the AP, and would give governors in those states final say on whether to participate.
"That is 100% not true," White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters. "It is false. It is irresponsible to be saying this. ... There is no effort at all to round up, to utilize the National Guard to round up illegal immigrants."
Spicer would not say whether this idea was ever floated somewhere within the Administration ...
http://time.com/4674590/donald-trump-immigration-national-guard/
Of course, tthe story could change later today, tomorrow, or the next day ...