Analysis-Trump plan to use military in deportations should stand up in court

FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a visit at the frontier with Mexico in Hereford, Cochise County, Arizona, U.S. August 22, 2024. REUTERS/Go Nakamura/File Photo/File Photo

(Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to use the U.S. military to help deport millions of undocumented migrants, a plan that breaks from U.S. tradition against deploying troops domestically but which legal experts said would still be hard to successfully challenge in court.

Trump advisers have said they intend to use the military to build detention camps or to transport undocumented migrants out of the U.S., freeing border patrol and immigration agents for investigations and apprehensions.