Military bases for migrants? Trump's covert plan to speed deportations
The practice has long historic precedent, dating back to Jimmy Carter.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been briefed on a Trump administration proposal to house thousands of migrants at U.S. military facilities in order to make up for a shortage of traditional detention space that’s stemming the president’s sweeping deportation goals.
“The Trump administration is asking a whole bunch of different military bases, ‘Give us the feasibility of housing migrants at your base,’” Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, told me in an interview.
Smith said he was made aware of the plan during a meeting with the commander of U.S. Northern Command, Gen. Gregory M. Guillot. Specific bases have not been selected, according to the congressman, but “a couple dozen bases or more” are being considered.
It’s a gambit the president is relying on in order to fulfill a prized campaign goal that’s been stalled: To orchestrate the biggest mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in the nation’s history.
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