Rand Paul Torches Trump’s ‘Terrible’ Plan to Use Military in Mass Deportation Effort: ‘Huge Mistake’

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Posted on 11/20/2024 12:17:42 PM PST by RandFan

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), a longtime ally of President-elect Donald Trump, came out hard against Trump’s plan to used the military as part of his mass deportation effort on Tuesday night.

“I think what I would do if I were in charge of the immigration situation would be to first to go after those who have committed crimes. You know, the big news right before the election was that there were 15,000 people in our country who have committed murder, there are about 13,000 that have committed sex crimes, violent sex crimes. That’s 28,000 people. Why don’t we start with that 28,000?” began Paul. “I’m not in favor of sending the army in uniforms into our cities to collect people. I think it’s a terrible image. And that’s not what we use our military for, we never have. And it’s actually been illegal for over 100 years to bring the army into our cities. Army and our military are trained to shoot the enemy. They’re not trained to get a warrant to do what they’re doing. The police have a difficult job, but the people removing people from our country need to be a police enforcement domestic agency, not the military. So while I’m all for ‘Remain in Mexico,’ I will not support an emergency to put the army into our cities. I think that’s a huge mistake.”

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1 posted on 11/20/2024 12:17:42 PM PST by RandFan

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2 posted on 11/20/2024 12:20:07 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)

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3 posted on 11/20/2024 12:20:44 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)

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4 posted on 11/20/2024 12:21:06 PM PST by montag813

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I'm no Constitutional scholar but it seems to me that it might even be unconstitutional. But if I'm wrong then using the military sounds like a good idea.

5 posted on 11/20/2024 12:22:10 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)

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