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In reply to the discussion: White House Denies Trump Will Call Up National Guard for Immigrant Roundup [View all]riversedge
(69,727 posts)I do not know if there was an earlier AP story--this one does not say 'updated'
Actually has some details about the 11page Doc from WH issued Jan 25
Feb 17, 11:03 AM EST
Trump weighs mobilizing Nat Guard for immigration roundups
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_NATIONAL_GUARD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
By GARANCE BURKE
Associated Press
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........................
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the AP report was "100 percent not true" and "irresponsible." ''There is no effort at all to utilize the National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants," he said.
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.
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