Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.

In an early morning social media post, Trump responded “TRUE!!!” to a post by Tom Fitton, the president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, who wrote on 8 November that the next administration “will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program”.

Since his decisive victory, Trump has said he intends to make good on his campaign promise to execute mass deportations, beginning on the first day of his presidency. But many aspects of what he has described as the “largest deportation program in American history” remain unclear.

Trump has previously suggested he would rely on wartime powers, military troops and sympathetic state and local leaders. Such a sprawling campaign – and the use of military personnel to carry it out – is almost certain to draw legal challenges and pushback from Democratic leaders, some of whom have already said they would refuse to cooperate with Trump’s deportation agenda.

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    5 days ago

    Imagine you create a world where currency becomes less and less valuable. Essentially it becomes worthless.

    Debts, will, of course, soar out of control. Trump, banks, private equity, mortgages, etc. Everyone is underwater.

    How do people eat? How do people get medical care? How do people have shelter? Why it’s easy of course. The Party provides. “But wait that’s communism!” Hold on there buddy, communism is collectivism. This isn’t collectivism, this is fascism. The Government takes control of failing businesses, and decides who continues to be rich and who doesn’t. Workers are provided new “currency” tied to essentially paying the owners of everything the right to work, eat, be sheltered, and get medicine. In exchange, they do exactly what they are told. If you step out of line, well, there is a camp for that.

    “They couldn’t enforce such a thing.” China and Russia already have. I would not call it successful, at some point it will fail rapidly and harshly, Fascism always does.

    There is no end game here. The intent is absolute power. The consequences aren’t important for those that obtain the power during their lifetime.