ICE and DHS alone can't carry out the MAGA nightmare vision of mass deportation via sweeps of cities, staging camps, and repatriation flights.
They'd need the armed forces. It would violate basic norms of civil-military relations, but the law might allow it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/us/politics/trump-2025-insurrection-act.html
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