“The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard…”
“The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press. The 11-page document calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement as far north as Portland, Oregon, and as far east as New Orleans, Louisiana. Four states that border on Mexico are included in the proposal — California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — but it also encompasses seven states contiguous to those four — Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. Governors in the 11 states would have a choice whether to have their guard troops participate, according to the memo, written by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general. While National Guard personnel have been used to assist with immigration-related missions on the U.S.-Mexico border before, they have never been used as broadly or as far north.”
– Trump weighs mobilizing Nat Guard for immigration roundups
(via dendroica)
Nope nope nope. All the nope.
The fact that the US lacks a national police force is not a bug. It’s a feature. It’s a legacy of our history as a union of formerly independent states, where the will of a would-be autocrat is limited by the fact that without the cooperation of local law enforcement his ability to carry out peckerheaded schemes like this is limited.
We, like, literally fought a revolution over this.
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