United States President-elect, Donald Trump, has confirmed his plans to declare a national emergency to carry out his campaign promise of mass deportations of migrants living in the US without legal permission.
This was stated in his response 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 using “military assets” to deport the migrants, ABC News reports.
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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 had said during a rally at Madison Square Garden in the closing days of the presidential race.
He added: “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.”
Donald Trump’s plans for his first day in the White House are quite ambitious, to say the least.
After being asked if he’d be a dictator if re-elected, Trump responded that he wouldn’t be, “except for Day 1”.
His agenda includes mass deportation of migrants, rolling back Biden administration policies on education, reshaping the federal government by firing potentially thousands of federal employees he believes are secretly working against him, and pardoning people who were arrested for their role in the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Those arrested for participating in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot can expect pardons from Trump.
Trump also mentioned his intentions to “drill, drill, drill” and close the borders.
“I want to close the border, and I want to drill, drill, drill,” he said of his Day 1 plans.
When he took office in 2017, he also had a long list which included immediately renegotiating trade deals, deporting migrants and putting in place measures to root out government corruption. However, those things didn’t happen all at once.
Trump had said in his second term, “within two seconds” of taking office, he would fire Jack Smith, the special counsel who has been prosecuting two federal cases against him.