Above my paygrade, this

Somebody (preferably my American friends) tell me why this wouldn’t work.

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is still in force, the only part of the Alien & Sediton Acts that is. It allows the arrest of non-citizens in time of war. It was part of the legal justification of the round up of Japanese, German and Italian citizens during WW2 and in the case of the Japanese was used to round up American citizens of Japanese descent too.

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 allows the President to send troops overseas without congressional approval of some sort only in emergency circumstances involving an invasion of US territory.

Donald Trump has talked about deporting every last ‘illegal immigrant’ and many people have pointed out this is not going to happen legally without Congress appropriating a lot of money and passing a lot of laws.

Donald Trump likes to trump up trumpery reasons to be angry at people who he thinks aren’t doing enough to stop the flood of immigrants who he claims (and perhaps even actually thinks, who can tell) are coming across the borders in swarms.

So why can’t he declare emergency war on Mexico (maybe even Canada too) and then starting rounding up ‘illegals’ (and even US citizens of Hispanic origin) to start his long term promise to wreck the US economy… Oh, that’s not what he promised was it? Something about stopping the pollution of the blood of real Americans? Or did I hallucinate that?

I sincerly hope I’m not the only one who has thought of this. And if I am I hope nobody in Trump’s transition team reads it…