The White House has said that reports claiming Donald Trump is considering using 100,000 National Guard troops to round up illegal immigrants in 11 states are “100% false”. The Associated Press reported that the Trump administration was considering mobilizing the National Guard to round up immigrants living in the US illegally. According to a draft memo obtained by AP, millions of unauthorised citizens could be affected by the plan who live nowhere near the Mexican border. The memo was written by homeland security secretary John Kelly and addressed to acting heads of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Customs and Border Protection. The White House has called agency’s report “false,” but did not deny the existence of the memo. BREAKING NEWS: Trump administration considers mobilizing as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants. — AP Politics (@AP_Politics) 17 February 2017 RT.com reports: What the AP called “unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement” would affect locations as far north as Portland, Oregon and as far east as New Orleans, Louisiana, according to the 11-page document, purportedly written by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. The proposal would four states bordering on Mexico – Arizona, California, New Mexico [...]
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