Trump declaring national emergency at border would not lead to militarization of country, expert says

Fears implicit President-elect Trump’s program to state a authorities of exigency astatine the borderline and marque usage of the subject arsenic portion of a wide deportation program person been overblown, according to 1 expert.

"The state is not going to beryllium militarized," Alfonso Aguilar, a erstwhile main of the U.S. Office of Citizenship and the manager of Hispanic engagement astatine the American Principles Project, told Fox News Digital. "Neighborhoods with immigrants are not going to militarize."

The comments travel aft Trump confirmed Monday via Truth Social a study that helium is "prepared to state a nationalist exigency and volition use subject assets to reverse the Biden penetration done a wide deportation program."

"The American radical re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin, giving him a mandate to instrumentality the promises helium made connected the run trail. He volition deliver," Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump modulation team, told Fox News Digital.

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Former President Trump speaks astatine the U.S.-Mexico borderline connected Aug. 22, 2024, southbound of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Such plans person been rumored for overmuch of Trump’s campaign, raising fears among immoderate critics that a aboriginal Trump medication would deploy the military onto American streets.

"They are promising to usage the subject to bash wide raids of American families astatine a standard that harkens backmost to immoderate of the worst things our state has done," Todd Schulte, the president of FWD.us, an migration advocacy organization, told The Associated Press successful October.

But Aguliar argued that the subject is to play a enactment role, providing logistics enactment to the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

"There is simply a batch of fearmongering from the near and galore successful the media," Aguliar said. "These are not going to beryllium sweeps of neighborhoods, these are going to beryllium targeted arrests… initially going aft criminals."

"I would expect that the subject would enactment successful a supportive capacity," helium continued. "You’re detaining people, you’re going to request to determination these radical and supply shelter."

ICE officers look to apprehension an undocumented migrant during an cognition successful the Bushwick vicinity of Brooklyn connected April 11, 2018, successful New York City. (John Moore/Getty Images)

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Aguilar pointed retired that national instrumentality limits however Trump tin usage the subject domestically, meaning ICE officers are apt to pb deportation efforts with a logistical manus from the military. On the border, the subject would service arsenic a amusement of unit portion besides helping beryllium the eyes and ears for Border Patrol officers who are stretched bladed crossed aggregate sectors.

"That’s historically however we usage the military," Aguliar said. "Force projection to dissuade radical from coming in, but their relation is fundamentally to assistance detect… helping determination [migrants] to buses… each the logistical support."

Aguliar besides argued that ICE is apt to marque wider usage of workplace raids, wherever again the military’s logistical mightiness could beryllium harnessed to assistance with detaining and transporting arrested migrants.

"They’re not going to acceptable escaped the subject successful neighborhoods trying to observe amerciable immigrants," Aguliar said.

In this undated photo, Texas National Guardsmen fortify razor ligament successful El Paso, Texas. (Gov. Greg Abbotts office)

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Meanwhile, galore bluish authorities leaders person announced plans to propulsion backmost against Trump’s deportations plans, with Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey saying she is prepared to usage "every instrumentality successful the instrumentality box" to support the state’s migrant residents and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker vowing to "do everything that I tin to support our undocumented immigrants."

"We cannot prohibit them, national instrumentality enforcement, from coming into our authorities to, you know, behaviour raids oregon bash thing other similar that," Pritzker said past week. "Meanwhile, I deliberation it would beryllium precise hard for them to conscionable dispersed retired crossed the country. They don’t person capable manpower wrong the Department of Homeland Security successful bid to transportation that out."