Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are drawing up plans on how to cover the costs of a mass deportation as well as how to implement it, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Behind the scenes, Trump’s advisers had been working since the campaign on what a mass deportation would look like. Since Trump’s victory on Tuesday, those efforts have seen an upswing.

For his first day in office, Trump’s advisers are seeking to issue a national emergency declaration over illegal immigration. They believe this could allow Trump to reallocate funds from the Pentagon to finance the completion of the border wall and aid in immigrant detention and deportation efforts, but the legality of this question is still left hanging. Trump’s team believes that a national emergency declaration would also allow the use of military bases for immigrant detention and military planes to facilitate deportations.

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