--- title: National Guard: White House Pushes Back Against Report description: The White House pushed back against a report that it is considering a proposal to use the National Guard to deport undocumented immigrants. canonical: https://time.com/4674590/donald-trump-immigration-national-guard/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-17T15:46:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T11:48:09.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House Pushes Back on National Guard Deportation Idea og:description: The AP reported a draft plan would mobilize the National Guard for deportations. og:url: https://time.com/4674590/donald-trump-immigration-national-guard/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca4c5824e299d609/6988bacae20a87a87da94273/trump-national-guard-immigrants.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3935 og:image:height: 2213 og:image:alt: President Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House Pushes Back on National Guard Deportation Idea twitter:description: The AP reported a draft plan would mobilize the National Guard for deportations. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca4c5824e299d609/6988bacae20a87a87da94273/trump-national-guard-immigrants.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # White House Pushes Back Against Report of Plan to Use National Guard for Deportations > Sponsored content. 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Jabin Botsford—The Washington Post/Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:48 AM UTCPublished: Feb 17, 2017 3:46 PM UTC The White House is pushing back [against a report](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-weighs-mobilizing-nat-guard-immigration-roundups-151900309.html) that it is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops round up [undocumented immigrants](http://time.com/4672858/day-without-immigrant-strike-jose-andres/). The Associated Press reported this morning that an 11-page document would call for the National Guard to be called up in 11 states, including some not along the Mexican border, to round up [undocumented immigrants](http://time.com/4669317/donald-trump-deportations-advocates-fear/). The memo was written by U.S. [Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly](http://time.com/4630875/homeland-security-john-kelly-donald-trump-hearing/), a retired four-star Marine general, according to the AP, and would give governors in those states final say on whether to participate. “That is 100% not true,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters. “It is false. It is irresponsible to be saying this. … There is no effort at all to round up, to utilize the National Guard to round up illegal immigrants.” Spicer would not say whether this idea was ever floated somewhere within the Administration. “I don’t know what could potentially be out there, but I know that there is no effort to do what is potentially suggested,” he said. The states included in the draft proposal include California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas as well as seven non-border states: Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. The full 11-page document has [since been posted online](https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus%5Fasset/file/8001743/Implementing%5Fthe%5FPresident%5Fs%5FBorder%5FSecurity%5Fand%5FImmigration%5FEnforcement....0.pdf) by Vox. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4674590/donald-trump-immigration-national-guard/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4674590/donald-trump-immigration-national-guard/"},"headline":"White House Pushes Back Against Report of Plan to Use National Guard for Deportations","datePublished":"2017-02-17T15:46:21.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T11:48:09.000Z","description":"The White House pushed back against a report that it is considering a proposal to use the National Guard to deport undocumented immigrants.","url":"https://time.com/4674590/donald-trump-immigration-national-guard/","keywords":["White House","Immigration","National Guard","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca4c5824e299d609/6988bacae20a87a87da94273/trump-national-guard-immigrants.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca4c5824e299d609/6988bacae20a87a87da94273/trump-national-guard-immigrants.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Donald Trump","caption":"President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017.","creditText":"Jabin Botsford—The Washington Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4674590/donald-trump-immigration-national-guard/","name":"White House Pushes Back Against Report of Plan to Use National Guard for Deportations"}}]}] ```