The U.S. military is likely to resist former President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan, according to legal analyst Joseph Nunn on Sunday, saying that it would undercut other priorities and damage morale.
Immigration is among the top issues ahead of the 2024 presidential election as the country experiences heightened levels of migrant border crossings. There were more than 2.4 million encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2023 fiscal year, up from roughly 1.7 million in 2021, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.
This comes as Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, will face off against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, in November.
Trump has promised mass deportations as part of his election campaign for months, promising to bring in the Army and local law enforcement to remove millions of illegal immigrants.
According to the Associated Press, Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, said the former president
US Military Likely to Resist Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan-Legal Analyst
