Trump says he will use military for deportations up to 'maximum' legal level

His comments came to Time magazine as it named him "2024 Person of the Year."

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Why Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ won’t work on Iran this time

2025 is not 2018 and, while Iran was on the ropes then, things are different now.
The Hill - 1h
Trump Wants Mass Deportations. He Will Need Jails and Sanctuary Cities to Help.

Immigration experts say the Trump administration would need cooperation from local law enforcement to deport millions of people.
The New York Times - 20h
Stephen Miller says mass deportations will be Trump’s first priority

Stephen Miller, who was chosen by President-elect Trump to be his deputy chief of staff for policy, said mass deportations will be Trump’s first priority. Miller joined Fox News’s “Sunday Morning ...
The Hill - 3d
Byron Donalds: Using military for deportations would be a 'last resort'

Rep. Byron Donalds, a prominent ally of Donald Trump, downplayed the prospects of a major military role in the president-elect's deportation effort.
ABC News - 3d
Rep. Donalds says using military assets in deportation efforts is 'extreme last resort'

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said on Sunday that President-elect Trump will use military assets to execute his mass deportation plan only as an “extreme last resort.” In an interview on ABC News’s ...
The Hill - 4d
Trump pick a threat to US military’s counter-extremism effort, experts warn

Critics fear ‘absolute disaster’ and say Pete Hegseth’s far-right views will hinder attempts to tackle serious problem. Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump ’s embattled choice for secretary of defense, ...
The Guardian - 6d
FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel

The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient.
Wired - Dec. 3
Trump says he would block US Steel acquisition by Nippon Steel

President-elect Trump vowed to block Japanese Nippon Steel Corp.'s acquisition of U.S. Steel. "I am totally against the once great and powerful U.S. Steel being bought by a foreign company, in this ...
The Hill - Dec. 3
Democrats press Biden to limit Trump's ability to use military domestically

Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) sent a letter to President Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this week calling for a policy directive that would ...
The Hill - Dec. 2