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<snip>Rounding up illegal immigrants and keeping them in mass deportation camps: Trump and his allies want to put together one of the biggest deportations of the past century, using the military to raid communities and hold potentially millions of migrants in mass detention camps before deporting them, The Washington Post’s Isaac Arnsdorf, Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey report. To get around Congress — which might not give him the money to do this because it might be illegal — Trump would divert military funds, the New York Times reports.
“The illegals are going home,” Trump adviser Stephen Miller declared recently.
Use the federal government to target his enemies: Trump says he’ll appoint a special prosecutor to “go after” President Biden. He’s also talked privately about using the Justice Department to investigate top people in his first administration who now publicly criticize him, The Post’s Isaac, Josh and Devlin Barrett report.
“This is Third World country stuff, ‘arrest your opponent,’” Trump has said of his indictments, despite the fact they are based on his actions, and there’s no evidence of political motivation. “And that means I can do that, too.”
Make it harder to protest against him: Trump’s allies are considering how they could wield a Civil War-era law, the Insurrection Act, to use the military to clamp down on civil protests against him.
Legal and political experts worry this could do a lot of damage to democracy as we know it: “This is an existential moment for the country,” Michael Steele, a former head of the Republican National Committee, said in an interview this fall. “Do you really want to live in a country where the president of the United States is going after his political enemies?”<snip> WAPO 5-minute fix
