Trump declaring national emergency at border would not lead to militarization of country, expert says

"The country is not going to be militarized," Alfonso Aguilar, a former chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship and the director of Hispanic engagement at the American Principles Project, told Fox News Digital. "Neighborhoods with immigrants are not going to militarize."

But Aguliar argued that the military is to play a support role, providing logistics support to the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

"I would anticipate that the military would participate in a supportive capacity," he continued. "You're detaining people, you're going to need to move these people and provide shelter."

"They're not going to set loose the military in neighborhoods trying to detect illegal immigrants," Aguliar said.