In a move likely to spur a legal challenge, President-elect Donald Trump today declared he plans to use the military to execute mass deportations in the United States.

ABC News reports the strategy calls for him to declare a national emergency and to bring in troops to force the undocumented back to their country of origin.

In 2019, the Sierra Club and the Southern Borders Community Coalition filed a lawsuit with the help of the ACLU to challenge Trump’s border wall.

The lawsuit was dropped after voters removed Trump from office in the 2020 election.

The Brennan Center for Justice tells USA Today it believes such a use of the military by Trump would be illegal. It asserts that troops cannot be used as a police force.

Ironically the Posse Comitatus Act has racist origins. It was passed in 1878 to stop the use of the military to prevent implementation of Jim Crow Laws that legalized racial separation between Blacks and Whites.

Trump confirmed his intentions when he responded to a post on his Truth Social site by the president of Judicial Watch.

“GOOD NEWS: Reports are the incoming @RealDonaldTrump administration prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” Fitton wrote.

Trump shared the post with the comment “True.”

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