Rachel Maddow Sounds The Alarm That Trump Is Trying To Repurpose The Military And Federal Law Enforcement

Rachel Maddow pointed out that Trump is firing people with standing in the military and federal enforcement for what she suggests is a potential repurposing.

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Donald Trump told the country during the 2024 campaign that this was going to happen. It would take ICE years to hire enough agents to get up to the level of staffing that would be needed to carry out Trump’s goal of deporting 20 million people from the United States.

First, Trump insisted that he would recruit local enforcement to help deport immigrants, but most local law enforcement were uncertain to cooperate, so during the campaign, Trump suggested that he would use the military to round people up and deport them.

That seems to be exactly what Trump is doing.

The president is changing the purpose of the nation’s military and federal law enforcement, while using crime as a pretext to enter Democratic cities and terrorize residents.

Rachel Maddow discussed this repurposing of the military.

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