The senator said he would 'not support and will not vote to use the military in our cities,' adding that he thinks 'it's a terrible image.'
Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said on Sunday that while he supports the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, he does not support President-elect Donald Trump's plan to use the U.S. military to expel migrants 'because it's illegal.'Trump heavily campaigned on the issue of immigration in this year's election cycle, which has been a central focus of his platform since stepping onto the political stage in 2016.
I'm for removing these people, but I would do it through the normal process of domestic policing,' Paul told Brennan.Newsweek reached out to Paul's office and Trump's team via email for comment Sunday afternoon.Brennan mentioned how taxing a mass deportation plan would be on immigration authorities, saying, 'There are just 6,000 agents, 41,000 detention beds to carry out the assignment of rounding up millions of undocumented people, potentially.
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