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Rand Paul Says Trump Plan to Use Military for Mass Deportation Is 'Illegal'
Rand Paul says Trump plan to use military for mass deportation is "illegal"
The senator said he would "not support and will not vote to use the military in our cities," adding that he thinks "it's a terrible image."
www.newsweek.com
Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said on Sunday that while he supports the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, he does not support President-elect Donald Trump's plan to use the U.S. military to expel migrants "because it's illegal."
Trump heavily campaigned on the issue of immigration in this year's election cycle, which has been a central focus of his platform since stepping onto the political stage in 2016. He promised to carry out the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants on the campaign trail and on Monday, he confirmed that his incoming administration is prepared to declare a national emergency to carry out his mass deportation plan and will use the U.S. military in some form to help.
Appearing on CBS News' Face the Nation on Sunday morning, Paul, a ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, told Margaret Brennan, "I'm a 100 percent supportive of going after the 15,000 murders, the 13,000 sexual assault perpetrators, rapists—all of these people. Let's send them on their way to prison or back home to another prison...but you don't do it with the army because it's illegal and we've had a distrust of putting the army into our streets."
Paul was referring to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) report released in September on noncitizens who have been convicted or charged with a crime. The senator seemed to mix up the numbers as ICE reports 13,099 noncitizens convicted of murder and 15,811 convicted of sexual assault. Also, these numbers span decades, including people who entered the country over the past 40 years or more.
"The police understand the Fourth Amendment. They have to go to judges. They have to get warrants; it has to be specific. I'm for removing these people, but I would do it through the normal process of domestic policing," Paul told Brennan.
Newsweek reached out to Paul's office and Trump's team via email for comment Sunday afternoon.
