Trump is prepared to use military to deport illegal immigrants

Incoming president Donald Trump has confirmed he is ready to declare a national emergency and use the military to deport illegal immigrants from America. Responding to a post on Truth Social made by activist Tom Fitton, who said the 'incoming Trump administration [are] prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,' Trump wrote: 'TRUE!!!'

Trump has long promised not only to curb illegal immigration, but to deport those who currently live in the US. He said just days after winning the 2024 election that his fight to deport an estimated 11 million people would have no 'price tag.' He told NBC: 'Really, we have no choice.

When people have been killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag.'

The American Immigration Council estimated that the cost of a mass deportation on the scale that Trump wants could cost $315 billion. This cost includes the impacts of lost labor. Despite this, members of Trump's inner circle previously told the Mail on Sunday that he has been formulating a plan to begin mass deportations in Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home.