Trump is working overtime to weaponize the Pentagon to detain and deport undocumented immigrants. It’s a misuse of billions of taxpayer dollars, an egregious abuse of national security resources, and it’s sure to have devastating consequences — for immigrants and servicemembers alike.

If you find it abhorrent, you’re far from alone. A recent Axios-Ipsos poll revealed that 62 percent of people across ALL parties oppose using money allocated to the U.S. military to pay for deportation efforts. That opposition ticks even higher — to 72 percent — when people are asked about active duty servicemembers being tasked with finding undocumented immigrants.

That’s not all: Using military resources to detain and deport immigrants isn’t just morally wrong, it’s also financially reckless, cravenly politicizes servicemembers, and may be illegal.

Despite this, the Trump administration has already begun to use aircraft, intelligence systems, and to deploy troops to strengthen a deportation machine capable of devastating millions of lives.

Congress can stop him by refusing to fund this horrible machine, but Senate Republicans are gearing up to advance a misguided bill and pour HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars into the Pentagon to do just that.

Polling won’t be enough. It’ll take the strength of an entire movement, tirelessly speaking out, to stop the kind of abuse and harm this White House is capable of. Together, we will remind Congress that Trump’s schemes aren’t just bad policy, they’re bad politics — exactly the kind of message that can push lawmakers to block taxpayer funds allocated for military operations from being used to target undocumented immigrants.