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Immigration,
Government,
Constitutional Law

Nov. 27, 2024

The military is not authorized to conduct 'mass deportations'

Deportation responsibilities are assigned to ICE under the Department of Homeland Security, not the Department of Defense, making the use of the military for mass deportations legally problematic.

In April of 1992, I was both a 1L in law school (my first semester) and a young 2LT (or Second Lieutenant) in the California National Guard. Unlike almost all of my classmates who were busy studying for their finals, I was called up for 2+ weeks to establish order and civility again in Los Angeles because of the Rodney King Riots - a reaction to a surprisi...

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