White House Denies Trump Will Call Up National Guard for Immigrant Roundup

[herding cats]

Source: Bloomberg

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer denied a report by the Associated Press that President Donald Trump was considering using the National Guard to round up undocumented immigrants.

"That is 100 percent not true. It is false," Spicer told reporters aboard Air Force One, calling the APs report that Trump may call up as many as 100,000 troops "irresponsible."

Spicer said he had no information about the origin of the report.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-17/spicer-denies-trump-will-call-up-guard-for-immigrant-roundup?utm_content=politics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics

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IMO, this was a setup to discredit the media and panic our Latino population, folks.

Natasha Bertrand‏ @NatashaBertrand

"AP reporter noted they asked [for WH comment] multiple times before publication"
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Sean Spicer tells press pool that AP report on National Guard being used to round up people in the U.S. illegally is "100% not true."
https://mobile.twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/832617494338605059

[KittyWampus]

1. Another DU'er posited that Bannon feds false news stories. I guess we'll find out.

[dalton99a]

5. Bannon may be trying to identify a leaker in the WH.

[GusBob]

6. something smells about this

The AP NG story came out and like 5-10 minutes later a denial

Either a story planted to make the press look bad or catch leakers?

[Maeve]

2. This is a serious problem--we have no idea what is true

And what is fake when it comes out of the White House. They have sent us down a rabbit hole that may in fact contain rattlesnakes...and I suspect they don't reall know, either!

[George II]

3. That can't happen. It's unconstitutional. There are severe limitations on the executive branch...

...using the US military domestically.

[Sunlei]

15. The state (s) just used NG to kick out/ arrest hundreds of one camp of pipeline protesters... now

because the camp was forced out, state claims they want millions more in federal funds to "clean up".

These Republicans are responsible for THEIR President, his crazy rants and his unfit admin.

[atreides1]

16. Some limitations aren't that severe!

The National Defense Authorization Act 2008 Pub.L. 110-181
Repeals provisions in section 1076 in Pub.L. 109-364 but still enables the President to call up the National Guard of the United States for active federal military service during Congressionally sanctioned national emergency or war. Places the National Guard Bureau directly under the Department of Defense as a joint activity.

The magic words, being "Congressionally sanctioned national emergency"! If he can get Republicans, the majority, to sanction a "national emergency", control of the National Guard falls under the Defense Department!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. But thanks for the swell idea! NT

[OKNancy]

7. Draft memo

The AP report seems true. What is not true is how some ran away with the story and made it seems like policy

Here is the AP article: https://apnews.com/5508111d59554a33be8001bdac4ef830?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

[herding cats]

11. Reading that it may have been intended as a follow up to the EO.

The memo is addressed to the then-acting heads of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It would serve as guidance to implement the wide-ranging executive order on immigration and border security that President Donald Trump signed Jan. 25. Such memos are routinely issued to supplement executive orders.

Also dated Jan. 25, the draft memo says participating troops would be authorized "to perform the functions of an immigration officer in relation to the investigation, apprehension and detention of aliens in the United States." It describes how the troops would be activated under a revived state-federal partnership program, and states that personnel would be authorized to conduct searches and identify and arrest any unauthorized immigrants.

[OKNancy]

13. You are probably correct.

I am disgusted by the whole shit sandwich in the White House. I need to take breaks to keep my blood pressure under control.

[herding cats]

14. That's smart of you. I about to check out for a few days and recharge myself.

It's not healthy the way we're bombarded daily under Trump.

[Sunlei]

8. the REPUBLICANS EO said all LOCAL police are deputized as immigration agents, so yes if you open the

door to your local police or get pulled over for ANYTHING, they are 'ordered' to check your 'papers'. And they are.

not exact quote from the EO but its on the white house records for anyone to read. and its put through the national record for anyone to read for themselves.

[Blue Idaho]

9. Spicer does not speak for President Bannon

It's obvious from the brief time the lunatic Trump has been in the White House that people like Spicer of Conway do not speak for the President and have no idea what Bannon is planning.

[Sunlei]

19. Spicer is supposed to give the press the facts of the Admins policies, answer the questions.

Those answers to the press questions are permanent record for our government. Such a contrast between the last president and this Republican slob.

I don't understand why Republicans with experience allow their president & his Admin. to fuck up everything so badly. Especially the criminals who attacked our democracy, why do Republicans with experience allow COVER UP for those crimes to continue?


I'm happy President Obama and family enjoy a well deserved rest. I wish sometimes soon he has a press conference and answers a few questions about his opinion about our governments current position. Like in his opinion, what's going on with transition progress, these CONSTANT attacks on free press media and the Russian crimes, who colluded with Republicans primary and Republicans from 2015s 'dinner in russia' by Flynn, Jill Stein and that list of generals someone fed to t(R)ump campaign.

Its time for President Obama to give our free press a presser, we need his opinion about todays WH.

The last goodbye

[CincyDem]

10. This denial has as much credibility as concluding no Russian involvement because...

...the Kremlin told us so.

[riversedge]

12. Here is the AP story--but this one has Spicy's denial: Trump weighs mobilizing Nat Guard for immigr

I do not know if there was an earlier AP story--this one does not say 'updated'

Actually has some details about the 11page Doc from WH issued Jan 25






Feb 17, 11:03 AM EST

Trump weighs mobilizing Nat Guard for immigration roundups

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_NATIONAL_GUARD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

By GARANCE BURKE

Associated Press





The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press.

The 11-page document calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement as far north as Portland, Oregon, and as far east as New Orleans, Louisiana........................


White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the AP report was "100 percent not true" and "irresponsible." ''There is no effort at all to utilize the National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants," he said.

Governors in the 11 states would have a choice whether to have their guard troops participate, according to the memo, written by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general.

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[olegramps]

17. Sean(Goebels) Spicer lastest lies.

[rdking647]

18. im pretty sure it cant be done

the posse comitatus act bars the federal govenrment from using the military to enforce domestic laws.
If congress tried to authorize it they would need 60 votes to approve it and theres no chance of that happening

[Oneironaut]

20. Trump legitimized fake news. Now it's coming back to bite him.

Remember when Hillary was dying, having people killed, involved in a pedophile ring using pizza terms as code words, etc.? You can't have it both ways - the genie is out of the bottle. These scam artists were ignored before, but now, being a hysteria-fueling sham artist is very profitable.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. tRump's "fine tuned machine" would not respond to multiple requests for confirmation/denial.

"fine tuned" amateurs in the White House.

[0rganism]

23. "don't run we are your friends"

[ailsagirl]

24. It sounds just like something he'd do