U.S. military preparing to send additional 1,000 troops to border, official says

As such, the President and his team today will immediately prioritize tackling the national security and public safety threats that have resulted from our open border. So here are some of the things that we're doing to rectify this. Today, specifically, number one, we are going to declare a national emergency at the border."

A White House official said on inauguration day

This represents a 60% increase in active-duty ground forces since President Trump was sworn-in Monday,

Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said in a statement late Wednesday

Rob Bontacalifornia Attorney General

This is a scare tactic, plain and simple. The President is attempting to intimidate and bully state and local law enforcement into carrying out his mass deportation agenda for him,

California Attorney General Rob Bonta wrote in a statement

This is just the beginning,

Salesses said,

At my direction, DoD established a Task Force to oversee expedited implementation of the Executive Orders,

he said

President Trump directed action from the Department of Defense on securing our nation’s borders and made clear he expects immediate results. That is exactly what our military is doing under his leadership,

he said

With the stroke of my pen, on day one, we're going to stop the transgender lunacy."

He said at a rally in December

The [Texas] governor will call me and say, 'Sir, the wall is going up too fast!' And I'll say, 'That's what winning looks like.'"

On Monday, Trump vowed

In the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records related to the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr Martin Luther King Jr and other topics of great public interest,

he said the day before his Inauguration

I wanted that sucker to go up 50, 60 feet, nice Y-shape. Beautiful. I love construction".

At one point he said

I said I was gonna release them, and probably very quickly. And they voted for me. I won in a landslide."

He said

[Trump] seems to be treating migration as if it were in the same way he would treat an armed attack from a foreign government,

said Elizabeth Goitein, a co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law

This is the initial effort that we can do right away, and we anticipate many additional missions,

the official said

It is the responsibility of the Justice Department to defend the Constitution and, accordingly, to lawfully executive the policies that the American people elected President Trump to implement.

He also cited threats posed by international gangs and drug cartels, writing

Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing or otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands and requests.

It states