Amy McGrath on Trump Using Military for Mass Deportations: U.S. Military Should Never Be Used as ‘Gestapo’

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MCGRATH: “Well, the fact of the matter is there aren’t enough Border Patrol agents to do what Trump wants. You would have to use the military. And, you know, this — core tenet of American democracy is that we don’t use our military against American civilians. And you know, a part of this is if you — if they’re using the the U.S. Military to go in and and take a — potentially take family members from U.S. citizens, it’s a huge problem. What happens, Nicolle, when there’s resistance? What — does the U.S. Military then fire upon our own citizens? Does the U.S. Military fire upon civilians if there’s resistance? the United States military should never be used as the Gestapo, and that is where we’re headed. Many of us did some exercises on what Trump would do on the first day, and it was very, very sobering. And it would rip the military apart because it’s not in our nature to turn our forces, we’re not trained for it. Our guns should not be turned onto American citizens and those people living here.”