Trump declaring national emergency at border would not lead to militarization of country, expert says

Fears over President-elect Trump’s plan to declare a state of emergency at the border and make use of the military as part of a mass deportation plan have been overblown, according to one expert.

"The country is not going to be militarized," Alfonso Aguilar, a former chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship and the director of Hispanic engagement at the American Principles Project, told Fox News Digital. "Neighborhoods with immigrants are not going to militarize."

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