National Guard confusion as troops fear turning into Trump's deportation 'Gestapo' [View all]

Source: Raw Story

January 19, 2025 8:31AM ET


Some National Guard troops are concerned they'll be called up to implement Donald Trump's mass deportation plans like a Hitler-era "Gestapo" that must enforce the incoming president's far-right policies against undocumented immigrants. Politico reported Sunday that "Some of the 435,000 troops worry they’ll get pulled into a legally murky mission rooting out people in communities where they have day jobs such as sheriffs, cops or firefighters."

But Border Czar Tom Homan claimed his top priority would be rooting out "criminals and gang members." Homan initially planned to begin the raids in Chicago, home to a high migrant population, but may be reassessing that location after it was leaked to the media.

In November, according to NBC News, "Trump confirmed a post by another Truth Social user, who wrote that the Trump administration would be 'prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets' for a deportation program. Trump shared the post, writing, 'TRUE!!!'”

Republican governors have vowed to deploy the state-run National Guard to help achieve Trump's ends, which he claimed would begin on "day one" of his presidency, which begins Monday. However, Politico reporters Jack Detsch, Liz Crampton and Lisa Kashinsky wrote that "blue states with control of their own Guard could simply refuse to go along."

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