Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said he opposes President-elect Donald Trump's plan to hire the military to help deport millions of illegal aliens.
President Trump has focused his second term on immigration after a historic number of illegal aliens entered the United States under the Biden administration. As part of his plan, he announced mass deportations with the aid of the U.S. military.
“Police work is difficult, but it needs to be the domestic institutions of the police, not the military, that remove people from our country.”
“All the reports said he was going to declare a state of emergency to use military force to remove people, and I disagree with that,” Paul said in a statement. interview on Newsmax.
“I'm not in favor of sending uniformed troops into cities to gather people. I think that's a terrible image. That's not what we use the military for, and we never have. “We've never had one. And in fact, it's been illegal for over 100 years. Bring the military into our cities,” he added.
Paul was likely mention It is based on the Posse Policing Act of 1878, which prohibits federal troops from enforcing civil laws unless expressly authorized by statute or the Constitution.
“Our military and our military are trained to shoot at the enemy. They are not trained to get warrants to do what they do. Police. “It's a difficult job, but the people who remove people from our country need to be police, not the military, domestic enforcement agencies,” Paul continued. “We do not respond in emergencies.” [declaration] To put troops in our cities. I think that's a big mistake. ”
Paul, a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said he supports efforts to first focus on deporting illegal aliens with violent criminal convictions. he Posted In an interview on his social media accounts, he reiterated his opposing views.
“As a conservative who supports Trump, we need to warn him about sending troops into our cities. Sending troops is a terrible image for the world and a terrible image for us as citizens. It's an image,” he posted.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana defended Trump's deportation plan, but suggested the effort should first focus on the millions of illegal aliens who have been convicted of crimes. did.
“I think what the president is talking about starts with the dangerous individuals that we know are here,” Johnson explained. “We have criminals, known criminals. We have known terrorists in this country. We have people who have crossed the border illegally and committed violent crimes and been arrested. So we start with the number of those categories. There are three or four million people who fit that bill. Let's start there and see how it goes.”
Some see this as surrender, while others think it is logically more plausible.
Here's the full interview on NewsMax:
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