{"id":295478,"date":"2017-02-18T16:27:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-homeland-security-memo-deploy-100000-national-guard-troops-to-round-up-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2017-02-18T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T15:27:04","slug":"us-homeland-security-memo-deploy-100000-national-guard-troops-to-round-up-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-homeland-security-memo-deploy-100000-national-guard-troops-to-round-up-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"US Homeland Security memo: Deploy 100,000 National Guard troops to round up immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>US Homeland Security memo: Deploy 100,000 National Guard troops to round up immigrants<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Eric London<br \/>\n    <br \/>18 February 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The Associated Press on Friday published a memo by the Trump administration\u2019s Homeland Security secretary, retired Gen. John Kelly, proposing the deployment of 100,000 National Guard troops to carry out the president\u2019s January 25 executive order mandating an escalation of the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The front page of the 11-page memo reads \u201cFrom: John Kelly.\u201d It recommends that the governors of 11 states in the South and along the Pacific Coast be instructed to mobilize their state National Guards for the purpose of \u201cperform[ing] the functions of an immigration officer in relation to the investigation, apprehension, and detention of aliens in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the AP report was \u201cirresponsible\u201d and \u201c100 percent not true.\u201d But only hours later, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told AP anonymously that the document existed and had been drawn up by the DHS.<\/p>\n<p>Spicer then claimed that it was \u201cnot a White House document,\u201d and DHS sources said the memo was not presented to President Trump. Spicer added that there was presently \u201cno effort at all to utilize the National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Spicer did not deny that the memo was discussed within the Trump administration as a possible course of action. Nor did he state that its proposals would not be considered in the future.<\/p>\n<p>This date of the Kelly memo is January 25, and its first sentence declares its purpose to be the implementation of a January 20 executive order. Since no immigration executive order was issued on January 20, inauguration day, it&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/02\/18\/memo-f18.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 US Homeland Security memo: Deploy 100,000 National Guard troops to round up immigrants By Eric London 18 February 2017 The Associated Press on Friday published a memo by the Trump administration\u2019s Homeland Security secretary, retired Gen. John Kelly, proposing the deployment of 100,000 National Guard troops to carry out the president\u2019s January 25 executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-295478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}