Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is pushing back on President-elect Trump’s plan to deploy service members to help with a mass deportation policy Trump promised during his campaign, as Politico and others reported.
“I’m not in favor of sending the Army in uniforms into our cities to collect people,” Paul said this week on Newsmax. “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.”
Paul, expected to become chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said he would not support Trump declaring an emergency to activate the military for immigration enforcement.
“I really think us as conservatives who are supportive of Trump need to caution him about sending the Army into our cities.”
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