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WASHINGTON, D.C., USA - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday examining the possible effects of President-elect Donald Trump's planned mass deportation effort.
How Mass Deportations Will Separate American Families, Harm Our Armed Forces, and Devastate Our Economy
Dick Durban opens Senate judiciary committee hearing with stark warning about Trump’s plan and how it would affect families and the US military
Democratic Senate judiciary committee chair Dick Durbin kicked off the hearing into Donald Trump’s plan for mass deportations by warning that such an effort would inhumane, prohibitively expensive and harmful to the US military.
Trump and his advisers have proposed using active-duty troops to deport every undocumented person in the country. In his opening statement, Durbin warned that doing so could harm the military’s readiness.
“Things change when you go from high flying campaign rhetoric to ground … Think about for a moment, using our military for a mass deportation plan. I’m sure it would have a damaging impact on the morale of the troops, rounding up people in their own communities at a time when we’re already facing the most serious recruitment challenge in years,” Durbin said.
Republican senator John Cornyn, the ranking member on the judiciary committee’s immigration subcommittee, gave a hint of which undocumented immigrants would be deported first.
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