“****The military should handle it like an emergency deployment of a Division overseas - a big logistics exercise for USTRANSCOM.****”
You can probably do this without declaring martial law. I love the idea of a logistics exercise. Even better would be a military exercise with a scenario that Honduras was attacked and we are sending 15,000 troops to support them.
Bring everyone through the gates in El Paso to Ft. Bliss. Have a few of our largest passenger aircraft available. Hopefully there is a place within Honduras that can support an aircraft that size. Figure it would take 50 trips at 300 per aircraft.
It takes four hours of flight time from El Paso to the airport in Honduras. Figure run a plane every two hours. Hour to load, four hours of flight time, hour to unload. Let the Honduran government deal with transporting them within the country. Not our problem.
Let’s figure each plane will take 12 hours round trip. A single aircraft running 50 trips would be 600 hours or 25 days. With four planes it would take six days. During the short time at Bliss, everyone is fingerprinted, sampled for DNA and photographed. Any single children arriving who say parents are in the US will have to provide addresses and phone numbers. Then we DNA the parents. If there is no match, that family in the US is also deported.
Keep single men for last. During that time same process continues, but with photos of all tattoos included. Have intelligence officers interviewing them. Gather all intelligence possible and if any one of them have been in the US before and have a criminal record, they spend the rest of their life in prison. Send them to a California prison so Moonbeam can pay for it.
USTRANSCOM is BeauBo’s brilliant idea. It seems to solve all of the problems.
An expert on the legalities of immigration law would understand the intricacies of a formal declaration of martial law. As it stands now, once they step foot here, they rarely really leave- lawyers-due process. I think martial law suspends those very rights, so we can just say-”ADIOS Amigos!”
Martial law could be restrictive in territory-within 2 miles of the border and timeframe- 30 days.