Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said that he opposes the plan by President-elect Donald Trump to employ the military to help deport millions of illegal aliens.
Trump has made immigration a focus of his second term after historically high numbers of illegal aliens crossed into the U.S. under the Biden administration. As part of his plans, he has announced mass deportations aided by the U.S. military.
‘The police have a difficult job, but the people removing people from our country need to be a police enforcement domestic agency, not the military.’
“The stories all said he would declare an emergency to use the military to remove people. I’m not for that,” said Paul in an interview on Newsmax.
“I’m not in favor of sending the army in uniforms into our cities to collect people. I think it’s a terrible image. That’s not what we use our military for; we never have. And it’s actually been illegal for over 100 years to bring the Army into our cities,” he added.
Paul was likely referring to the Posse Comitatus Act from 1878 that prohibits federal troops from enforcing civilian law except when expressly authorized by a statute or the Constitution.
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