Donald Trump, during his run to regain the presidency, repeatedly vowed to end "forever wars" abroad. Now we know why Trump wants to bring America's military home. He's eager to deploy them right here.

Trump this week used his social media platform Truth Social to confirm a political ally's claim that he will "declare a national emergency and will use military assets" to run "a mass deportation program."

As with most Trump policy proposals, this was a mile wide and an inch deep. Here's how detailed Trump got in his post while verifying that claim – "True!!!"

Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt expanded a little on that, telling me that Trump "will marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation" in this country's history.

How does that happen? And what might stop it? That law is complicated. But the most likely roadblock isn't. It's the implacable political dysfunction in the U.S. Congress.

The eventual roadblock to Trump sending troops into American cities and towns to round up millions of people, including children and hardworking families, might just be an inability in Congress to accomplish much of anything.

Every presidential administration deports people who enter this country illegally. Trump has made immigration the center of his political universe. But his predecessor, Barack Obama, deported more people. And the guy who beat him in 2020, Joe Biden, is on pace to match Trump's deportation numbers in his one term.

Trump, on the night before the general election, told a rally crowd in Reading, Pennsylvania, that President Dwight Eisenhower holds the record the for mass deportation of people from this country. Trump vowed to beat........

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