DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist in deportations

[highplainsdem]

Source: NPR

The Department of Homeland Security is asking the Pentagon to provide some 20,000 National Guard forces to assist in the removal of migrants in the United States without legal status.

A U.S. official with knowledge of the plan who was not authorized to talk tells NPR that military lawyers are reviewing the request from DHS. The request was first reported by The New York Times.

Under the proposal, state governors would be asked for volunteers among their Guard forces to take part in the removals. There's no word on when this would happen, or when the call would go out for volunteers.

There's also no sense at this point what role the Guard troops would play — whether they would provide just transportation or security, or if they would detain migrants or take part in arrests. In February, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave Texas Guard members the authority to make immigration arrests. This would be the first time Guard troops at the national level have been asked to assist in deportations. President Trump last week ordered DHS to increase its deportation force by 20,000 officers. Using Guard forces would be the quickest way to make that happen.

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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/15/nx-s1-5399656/national-guard-immigration

[John1956PA]

1. Guard members ordered to control a looked-down-upon throng of people.

What could possibly go wrong?

[Walleye]

4. Four dead in Ohio

[Walleye]

2. What they want is for the deport to be handled as roughly and cruelly as possible

Then they can make videos and Maga can jack off to them

[Traildogbob]

3. How much is

Rambo Barbie gonna spend for her little action movie photo ops and compensation job to make up for puppy killing thrills?

[LauraInLA]

5. Does anyone know: can a governor refuse a request for troops? If the Pres federalizes troops, does that mean the Feds

have to pay for them?

[MadameButterfly]

20. I'm betting Trump thinks the tab will be on the states

but I expect it won't be.

If the states can/do say no I'm sure Trump has some revenge lined up.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

26. Governors cannot refuse if its a Title 10 deployment

Title 10 transfers authority over to the Feds. It also transfers the financial burden to the Feds as well.

[kacekwl]

6. Noem needs to be told to

Fuck off. Ask the Jan. 6th folks to help.

[bluestarone]

7. I say, you shut off FEMA and medicaid, to states you get

ZERO national guard. ZERO!

[MadameButterfly]

21. If states are paying for disaster recovery and medical care

who says they still have money for a national guard?

[LiberalArkie]

8. Ahh more jobs will be available, usually well paying jobs.

[Iamscrewed]

9. Volunteers?

Are they going to be issued brown shirts?

[MadameButterfly]

22. I missed the implication of "volunteers"

Does that mean willing to do it for pay, or willing to do it for free?

[Iamscrewed]

29. Volunteers

Read the article.

[MadameButterfly]

31. Yes I read the article. It doesn't specify

Whether they would get paid.
It's my understanding the soldiers in the National Guard get paid.

See below 2 different definitions of volunteer:

a person who voluntarily undertakes or expresses a willingness to undertake a service: such as. a. : one who enters into military service voluntarily

Volunteering is when someone spends unpaid time doing something to benefit others

[Cirsium]

10. No

Just no.

[purr-rat beauty]

11. The slippery slope...

....down into NAZISM

[Magoo48]

12. Fuckin' Nazis. 🖕

[Delmette2.0]

13. Oh hell, NO!!!

[Seinan Sensei]

14. 8,000 non-citizens join US military each year

Soooooo … noncitizens arresting noncitizens?

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48163#

Btw
In FY 2024, we naturalized more than 16,290 service members

[perdita9]

15. I foresee recruitment issues with the National Guard

If Trump is going to turn them into the Gestapo, decent people won't sign up

[malthaussen]

19. So you don't think there are 20,000 indecent people in the Guard?

I am of the contrary opinion.

-- Mal

[MadameButterfly]

23. There will be 20,000 willing to do it

But National Guards will be smaller overall
And we might not like the ones who sign up

[travelingthrulife]

16. I expect California's National Guard will be needed to fight fires after these

monsters axed firefighting personnel.

[MadameButterfly]

24. Yeah but the immigrants are an emergency

[travelingthrulife]

17. They can hardly even find anyone to deport legally. This is just a huge waste of money.

If we don't have FEMA anymore, National Guard will be needed at home state.

[MadameButterfly]

25. They've been scraping the bottom of the barrel

in search of actual criminals. That is why they are deporting peaceful beloved long term members of communities and legal immigrants

[malthaussen]

18. Volunteers, eh? Good way to find out who the bigots are and recruit them for more mayhem.

Sadly, I doubt they'd have much trouble finding 20,000 volunteers among the Guard.

-- Mal

[JustAnotherGen]

27. So a type of impressment

Into the service of DHS in their fake war that SCOTUS just said they couldn't do?

So an intolerable act by a crazy despot? Hmmm . . .

[Bread and Circuses]

28. This will cause problems for Guardsmen who didn't signup for ......

Inflicting violence on random people.

Wll they refuse?

[stillcool]

30. anything that gets military in the streets

my mind goes places