Trump confirms plans to declare a national emergency and use military for mass deportations

Trump on the campaign trail pledged to secure the U.S.-Mexico border by finishing construction of a wall and by carrying out a mass deportation of undocumented migrants

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed his intention to use the U.S. military to carry out what he has vowed will be the largest mass deportation in American history.

Trump wrote “TRUE!!!” on his Truth Social network early Monday, replying to a post from Tom Fitton, the president of conservative legal group Judicial Watch, who said that Trump was reportedly “prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.”