Posted on 11/24/2024 6:30:51 PM PST by bitt
In a fiery appearance on Face the Nation, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) issued a stern warning to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston over his open defiance of federal immigration laws and President Trump’s promised deportation efforts.
“You know, I’m 100% supportive of going after the 15,000 murderers, the 13,000 sexual assault perpetrators, rapists—let’s send them on their way to prison or back home to another prison,” Paul asserted.
However, he made it clear that such efforts must not involve deploying the U.S. Army domestically, a move Paul deemed both unconstitutional and dangerous.
“We’ve had a long-standing distrust of putting the Army into our streets,” Paul explained. “The police understand the Fourth Amendment. They go to judges, get warrants, and ensure specificity. So, I’m for removing these people, but through the normal process of domestic policing.”
Calling the mayor’s actions a “form of insurrection,” Paul declared that Johnston could face removal from office and potential legal consequences if he continues down this path.
“The mayor of Denver, if he’s going to resist federal law, which is a long-standing history of the supremacy of federal law, if he’s going to resist that, it will go all the way to the Supreme Court,” said Paul.
“I would suspect that he would be removed from office. I don’t know whether or not there’d be a criminal prosecution for someone resisting federal law, but he will lose. People need to realize that what he is offering is a form of insurrection where the states resist the federal government.”
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Sounds like it to me. Put him is as the J6 get out.
So invading forces can only be expelled by local police?
I question Rand’s constitutional grandstanding.
Common sense from an United State Senator.
Doesn’t happen often.
I hope it’s true.
Only Democrats are allowed to define what is “insurrection,” and what isn’t.
“However, he made it clear that such efforts must not involve deploying the U.S. Army domestically, a move Paul deemed both unconstitutional and dangerous”
Really. So even though our country has been invaded every day by terrorists, gang members, foreign military, spies, God knows what else, we must not involve the military. Then what are we paying $900 billion a year for? Or maybe it’s all going to the Ukraine.
Paul needs to call Tom Homan and find out what he plans to do
cuz Paul is misstating Trump’s policy on this
So do I.
I think the plan is to dump a few million illegal aliens in Denver—and let the mayor deal with them.
Lol.
Didn’t JFK deploy troops to desegregate college in Mississippi? Or was it Alabama? It was in the early 1960’s.
I think those were National Guard. I don’t know if there is actual talk of using regular US military for deportations, but that would be alarming to me. Use ICE and, if necessary, National Guard.
The demholes do not have to help…..but if they impede or obstruct - it’s a crime
Didn’t Kennedy use the NATIONAL GUARD to desegregate the schools? Seems like the precedent is set for using national guard troops to suppress insurrection.
@TomHoman_
Human tr*fficking alert. 🚨
Early today, the Texas Department of Public Safety came across a group of 211 illegal aliens in Maverick County, Texas. Within this group, there were 60 minors without parents ranging in age from 2 to 17. Six of those young children coming all the way from Mali and Angola!
Among them was this two-year-old child from El Salvador who stated she traveled to the US alone. All she had with her was a note with a contact number and a name.
https://x.com/TomHoman_/status/1860808065307590981?t=_MoW7vCK7Rs4IZ7mcLIsEA
Wow, let’s rename this place Squish Republic and be done with it.
It isn’t a “form” of insurrection. It is insurrection to knowingly violate the laws of the United States by supporting an invasion.
I am with you: if the standing army can’t be trusted with a mission like this then why have one?
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