EFE
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump does not rule out building detention camps on US soil for migrants who enter illegally if he wins the presidential election, he told Time magazine in an interview published on Tuesday.
Trump was asked if he would build new detention camps as part of his election promise to carry out the largest deportation of illegal migrants.
“I wouldn't rule anything out,” Trump said. “But there wouldn't be as much need for them” because, he added, the plan is to deport the migrants back to their countries of origin as quickly as possible.
“We are not leaving them in the country,” he commented. “We are taking them out.”
Trump has made illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border a centerpiece of his campaign against President Joe Biden, a Democrat running for a second four-year term. Migration is a priority issue for voters, according to opinion polls.
Trump mentioned that he would use National Guard troops to help with his deportation plans, but he did not rule out deploying active military forces.
“I don't think he had to do it. I think the National Guard could do it. If they were not capable, then I would use the military,” he noted.
Trump was asked about the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, a post-Civil War law that prohibits the deployment of military personnel against civilians.
“Well, these aren't civilians. They are people who are not legally in our country. “This is an invasion of our country,” Trump said.
On Monday, Biden and his Mexican counterpart, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said their governments would soon take steps to reduce illegal crossings at the southern border, while addressing economic and security problems.
Trump has used dehumanizing expressions to refer to migrants who are illegally in the United States, whom he has called “animals” when talking about alleged crimes and who he has said are “poisoning the blood of our country,” a phrase which has drawn criticism for being xenophobic and echoing Nazi rhetoric.
