President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed his plan to declare a state of national emergency and use “military assets” to carry out mass deportations once in office. Trump, 78, verified the plan in a message to Truth Social while addressing a post from Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton.

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Monday his new administration will declare a national state of emergency over illegal immigration. The confirmation came via Truth Social, where Trump shared a post about the emergency declaration.

This morning, Donald Trump confirmed this his team is examining whether to call a national emergency and use military assets to carry out a mass deportation scheme that would target the millions of undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States.

The President-elect confirmed on Monday he is planning on declaring a national emergency and use the military to help conduct deportations