Trump Plans To Invoke Insurrection Act To Boot Illegal Immigrants

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Trump Plans To Invoke Insurrection Act To Boot Illegal Immigrants

5:02 PM 05/16/2019 | Politics
Amber Athey and Vince Coglianese | Contributor

President Donald Trump is planning on using the Insurrection Act to remove illegal immigrants from the United States, The Daily Caller has learned.

According to multiple senior administration officials, the president intends to invoke the “tremendous powers” of the act to remove illegal immigrants from the country.

“We’re doing the Insurrection Act,” one official said.

Under the Insurrection Act of 1807, the president has the authority to use the National Guard and military in order to combat “unlawful obstruction or rebellion” within U.S. borders. The act was last invoked in 1992 by George H.W. Bush to quell the Los Angeles riots, and was also used by Eisenhower in 1957 to enforce school desegregation in the south.

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https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/16/donald-trump-insurrection-act-illegal-immigration/

[corbe]

    Oh $hit.

The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law (10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255)[1] (until 2016, found at 10 US Code, Chapter 15, §§ 331–335, renumbered to 10 USC, Chapter 13, §§ 251–255) that governs the ability of the President of the United States to deploy military troops within the United States to put down lawlessness, insurrection, and rebellion. The general purpose is to limit presidential power, relying on state and local governments for initial response in the event of insurrection. Coupled with the Posse Comitatus Act, presidential powers for domestic law enforcement are limited and delayed.

Didn't Lincoln use this at the start of the Civil War?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act

[Sanguine]

Well, that's interesting.