Posted on 05/16/2019 3:32:46 PM PDT by RightGeek
President Donald Trump is planning on using the Insurrection Act to remove illegal immigrants from the United States, The Daily Caller has learned.
According to multiple senior administration officials, the president intends to invoke the “tremendous powers” of the act to remove illegal immigrants from the country.
“We’re doing the Insurrection Act,” one official said.
Under the Insurrection Act of 1807, the president has the authority to use the National Guard and military in order to combat “unlawful obstruction or rebellion” within U.S. borders. The act was last invoked in 1992 by George H.W. Bush to quell the Los Angeles riots, and was also used by Eisenhower in 1957 to enforce school desegregation in the south.
An official expressed concerns that Trump’s use of the act’s powers would face legal challenges, pointing to the lawsuits against the president’s travel ban from majority-Muslim countries. However, as the official noted, the travel ban ultimately prevailed in the Supreme Court.
In addition to the Insurrection Act, the president is also considering declaring the country full and insisting that the U.S. can no longer handle the massive influx of illegal immigrants. 2019 is currently on pace to reach the highest levels of illegal immigration in a decade.
“If you take a ship and it holds 1,000 people maximum — one more person and the ship is going to collapse,” the official explained. “The country is full.”
“Our hospitals are full, our detention centers are full,” they added.
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We are trying to have a country here, NOT A CHARITY.
All likely just more talk as the invasion continues.
When did the district courts get such authority that they exert?
Trump is looking like he is helpless, hapless or a fraud when it come s to this invasion from central america.
When has Trump won on this illegal invasion issue? When has he won much at all on the immigration mess?
I guess better to talk about doing something than to talk about making it worse as the rats do. Still, there is a lot of talk and little beneficial action.
Best election, best POTUS, evah!
Now there’s a new job for the local dog catcher.
If that’s what it takes, go for it.
This will make the best tweet ever to swoon over.
When the despicable rats put invaders before the people we might as well throw them out too
WINNING!
This could be the spark for CW2.
We are constantly winning because President Trump is hanging tough against these seditious anti-American traitor losers...and tightening the screws 24/7. Sit back and enjoy the show .
Cut off all benefits first. Millions will self deport.
ALL BENEFITS.
[Under the Insurrection Act of 1807, the president has the authority to use the National Guard and military in order to combat “unlawful obstruction or rebellion” within U.S. borders]
Where to start?
The Democrats will never allow their voters to be removed from the country.
Maybe Trump held off on the ace card to deport until now before the election. The Uniparty must now take real regressive action.
And please imprison the Koch Brothers and Soros for insurrection.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Excellent!
Expect dissent from the pretend conservatives in Congress
Yes it’s swell.
Please, let’s have this work out right. Some 5 foot 1 inch judge in OR or CA with a voice like a 5 year old girl will demand we all live by his demand that’s Trump stop. But then will be overruled. Pelosi and Schumer and Don Lemon will go nuts and say no.
It IS insurrection. And if he has to choose all of us (his actual voters, the always Trumpers, the good guys) and all of them (the ones who oppose him at every turn and want to ruin our representative republic to start Communism here) then I trust President Trump will make this happen.
I’m not tired of winning, either.
I know the President will work to the limits of his power to address this problem. If he can’t get it all done, I will not go all “Ann Coulter” on him for having tried something that no other president has attempted.
meh
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