Saturday, February 18, 2017 4:51:46 AM
Donald Trump considered using national guard to round up immigrants, memo suggests
Draft memo calls for unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement, including targeting undocumented people nowhere near Mexican border
* White House statement: national guard swoop on migrants is not policy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/white-house-national-guard-immigration-memo-not-policy
* Read the draft memo obtained by the Associated Press
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467508-Trump-National-Guard-Draft-Memo.html?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
Members of the national guard patrol along the Rio Grande at the Texas-Mexico
border in Rio Grande City, Texas. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images
Ed Pilkington, Lauren Gambino, and agencies
Saturday 18 February 2017 03.16 AEDT
First published on Saturday 18 February 2017 02.32 AEDT
The Trump administration considered 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 .. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467508-Trump-National-Guard-Draft-Memo.html?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP .
The 11-page document .. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467508-Trump-National-Guard-Draft-Memo.html?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP .. 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 regarding whether to have their guard troops participate, according to the memo, written by the US homeland security secretary, John Kelly, a retired four-star marine general.
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The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, told press on board the Marine One helicopter, on which Trump was flying to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland en route to South Carolina: “That is 100% not true. It is false. It is irresponsible to be saying this.”
Using the present tense, he added: “There is no effort at all to round up, to utilize the national guard to round up illegal immigrants.”
The Department for Homeland Security echoed this language. “The Department is not considering mobilizing the national guard,” said DHS acting press secretary Gillian Christensen in an email to the Guardian.
But Spicer would not categorically state that such a round-up was never a subject of discussion at some level in the Trump administration .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration . “I don’t know what could potentially be out there, but I know that there is no effort to do what is potentially suggested,” he said.
Staffers in the Department of Homeland Security said the proposal had been discussed as recently as last Friday, the AP reported.
Spicer added: “It is not a White House document.” The AP has made clear that the document was written by Kelly and so would originate from the Department of Homeland Security, not the White House.
Continued - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/trump-immigration-roundup-national-guard
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Draft memo calls for unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement, including targeting undocumented people nowhere near Mexican border
* White House statement: national guard swoop on migrants is not policy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/white-house-national-guard-immigration-memo-not-policy
* Read the draft memo obtained by the Associated Press
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467508-Trump-National-Guard-Draft-Memo.html?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
Members of the national guard patrol along the Rio Grande at the Texas-Mexico
border in Rio Grande City, Texas. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images
Ed Pilkington, Lauren Gambino, and agencies
Saturday 18 February 2017 03.16 AEDT
First published on Saturday 18 February 2017 02.32 AEDT
The Trump administration considered 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 .. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467508-Trump-National-Guard-Draft-Memo.html?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP .
The 11-page document .. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467508-Trump-National-Guard-Draft-Memo.html?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP .. 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 regarding whether to have their guard troops participate, according to the memo, written by the US homeland security secretary, John Kelly, a retired four-star marine general.
--
Hispanic caucus members ejected from meeting about immigration raids
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/hispanic-caucus-immigration-raids-meeting-ejected
--
The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, told press on board the Marine One helicopter, on which Trump was flying to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland en route to South Carolina: “That is 100% not true. It is false. It is irresponsible to be saying this.”
Using the present tense, he added: “There is no effort at all to round up, to utilize the national guard to round up illegal immigrants.”
The Department for Homeland Security echoed this language. “The Department is not considering mobilizing the national guard,” said DHS acting press secretary Gillian Christensen in an email to the Guardian.
But Spicer would not categorically state that such a round-up was never a subject of discussion at some level in the Trump administration .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration . “I don’t know what could potentially be out there, but I know that there is no effort to do what is potentially suggested,” he said.
Staffers in the Department of Homeland Security said the proposal had been discussed as recently as last Friday, the AP reported.
Spicer added: “It is not a White House document.” The AP has made clear that the document was written by Kelly and so would originate from the Department of Homeland Security, not the White House.
Continued - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/trump-immigration-roundup-national-guard
See also:
Trump Orders DC National Guard Chief To Leave In Middle Of Inaugural Ceremony
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=127858504
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