President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Truth Social early Monday morning that his incoming administration will declare a national emergency and use military resources to implement a mass deportation of illegal immigrants. The confirmation was made in response to an earlier post by Tom Fitton, journalist and president of Judicial Watch.
“GOOD NEWS: Reports are the incoming @RealDonaldTrump administration prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” Fitton posted.
“TRUE!!” Trump responded, quoting Fitton’s post.
HUGE: President @RealDonaldTrump confirms he is prepared to declare a national emergency and use the military assets to reverse the Biden invasion. pic.twitter.com/XnqW121GnQ
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) November 18, 2024
Trump’s vow to deport illegal immigrants residing in the United States was an integral part of his campaign, which was widely popular among his supporters. As the Washington Examiner previously reported, the president-elect said he would “deport more illegal immigrants from the United States than any of his predecessors.”
To implement such a plan and facilitate this initiative, Trump announced that Tom Homan, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, would be the “border czar” for the Trump administration.
“President Trump’s been clear; public safety threats and national security threats will be the priority because they have to be. They pose the most danger to this country,” Homan said.
Homan stressed that he would prioritize deporting the illegal immigrants who were already told to leave the country by a federal immigration judge but have defied those orders.
“We’re going to prioritize those groups, those who already have final orders, those that had due process at great taxpayer expense, and the federal judge says you must go home. And that didn’t. They became a fugitive,” said Homan.
Homan acknowledged that people are against such deportations but explained that those who are still here illegally after being told to leave by a federal judge are breaking the law, and the law must be enforced.
“As far as the people want to push back on deporting these people, what is the option? You have a right to claim asylum,” said Homan during an appearance on Fox & Friends. “You have a right to see a judge, and we make that happen, but at the end of that due process, when the judge says, ‘You must go home,’ then we have to take them home because if we’re not, what the hell are we doing?”
Currently, there are an estimated 1.3 million illegal immigrants who were ordered to leave the country but ignored those orders and remained, the Wall Street Journal reported.
