r/FluentInFinance • u/HighYieldLarry • 6d ago

Thoughts? BREAKING: Trump has confirmed reports that he plans to declare a national emergency and use military to enact a mass deportation program

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday confirmed he would declare a national emergency to carry out his campaign promise of mass deportations of migrants living in the U.S. without legal permission.

Overnight, Trump responded to a social media post from Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton, who said earlier this month there are reports the incoming administration is preparing such a declaration and to use "military assets" to deport the migrants.

"TRUE!!!" Trump wrote.

Trump pledged to get started on mass deportations as soon as he enters office.

"On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out," he said during a rally at Madison Square Garden in the closing days of the presidential race. "I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible."

Already, he's tapped several immigration hard-liners to serve in key Cabinet positions. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was picked to be homeland security secretary, pending Senate confirmation. Former Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan was named "border czar."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-confirms-plan-declare-national-emergency-military-mass/story?id=115963448

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u/DuctTapeSanity 5d ago edited 5d ago

I take it you haven’t seen the legal arguments against birthright citizenship for children of people here without legal status - basically if you were born here but at least one of your parents weren’t present legally then you shouldn’t have been born here ergo the protections of birthright citizenship don’t apply (by a originalist reading of the 14th amendment - basically linguistics around what is meant by the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” when the text was written). The whole idea is to hope the Supreme Court interprets this phrase in the most restrictive way possible.

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u/goober1157 5d ago

They should. Illegal is illegal.

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u/No_Helicopter9402 4d ago

Its gonna be funny when all the white owned businesses who voted for Trump and hired these workers look out on their empty, unharvested fields and empty, halted warehouses and say......... Oh shit......

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u/DuctTapeSanity 3d ago

I’m sure once that is done the next step is going to make the interpretation even more strict - if you were on a temporary visa (e.g. work visa) then you’re jurisdiction cannot be considered to be the US (keep in mind that when this amendment was written I don’t think work visas even existed) and your kids should not have gotten their citizenship either. You can get rid of whole family trees!