{"id":2702,"date":"2024-11-20T18:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T18:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-breaks-with-trump-on-using-military-for-mass-deportations-huge-mistake\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T18:37:21","slug":"rand-paul-breaks-with-trump-on-using-military-for-mass-deportations-huge-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-breaks-with-trump-on-using-military-for-mass-deportations-huge-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul breaks with Trump on using military for mass deportations: \u2018Huge mistake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOP Sen. Rand Paul<\/a> denounced President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s plan to deploy the military<\/a> to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants upon his return to office, saying it would be a \u201chuge mistake\u201d and a misuse of military personnel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not in favor of sending the Army in uniforms into our cities to collect people,\u201d Paul (R-Ky.) told Newsmax host Rob Schmitt on Tuesday. \u201cI think it\u2019s a terrible image and that\u2019s not what we use our military for, we never have and it\u2019s actually been illegal for over 100 years to bring the Army into our cities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul emphasized in the interview that he believes the task of removing people from the country should fall to local police or domestic agencies, but not the military.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not support an emergency [declaration] to put the Army into our cities \u2014 I think that\u2019s a huge mistake,\u201d he said, later adding, \u201cI really think us as conservatives who are supportive of Trump need to caution him about sending the Army into our cities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has vowed to begin deporting<\/a> hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants from the country on Day 1 of his new administration, nominating former acting ICE Director Thomas Homan<\/a> as his \u201cborder czar\u201d for the task.<\/p>\n

As the incoming chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Paul has said he\u2019ll seek to restore Trump\u2019s Remain in Mexico policy, which would require asylum seekers to the U.S. to wait in Mexico for their legal request to be processed. He has an inconsistent record with supporting Trump, endorsing him for president in 2020 but not this year. In 2019, Paul voted against<\/a> Trump\u2019s proposed national emergency declaration to secure funds for his border wall.<\/p>\n

The senator also expressed concern for how it would look like for \u201cthe housekeeper who\u2019s been here 30 years\u201d to get arrested by a uniformed service member.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see the military putting her in handcuffs and marching her down the street to an encampment. I don\u2019t really want to see that,\u201d Paul said, proposing \u201can in-between solution\u201d that would expand work permits for those who have been in the U.S. for a long time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOP Sen. Rand Paul denounced President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s plan to deploy the military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants upon his return to office, saying it would be a \u201chuge mistake\u201d and a misuse of military personnel. \u201cI\u2019m not in favor of sending the Army in uniforms into our cities to collect people,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}