Anche il Pentagono ha smentito la notizia secondo la quale l’amministrazione di Donald Trump sarebbe pronta a mobilitare 100 mila effettivi della Guardia Nazionale per radunare gli immigrati senza documenti. “Non c’è – ha detto il portavoce del Dipartimento della Difesa Jeff Davis – semplicemente niente di vero. Non c’è semplicemente nessuna proposta del genere che noi vediamo circolare”.

The US Department of Defense dismissed on Friday reports that the administration of President Donald Trump considers mobilizing as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up undocumented immigrants. “There is simply no truth to it. There is simply no such proposal that we have seen floating around,” Pentagon spokesperson Jeff Davis said in a press briefing. Earlier in the day, the Associated Press reported, citing an 11-page draft memo, that the Trump administration was considering a plan to mobilize 100,000 National Guard troops to round up undocumented immigrants, including in 11 states that do not border Mexico. White House spokesman Sean Spicer has stated that the media reports were not true.