Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Monday that if he wins back the presidency this fall, he will create a new reserve component for the U.S. Space Force.

Trump made the remarks while speaking at the National Guard Association of the United States conference in Detroit about national security issues.

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“One of my proudest achievements in my first term was to create Space Force, the first new branch of the Armed Forces in over 70 years,” he said. “Now that Space Force is up and running, I agree with your leadership … that the time has come to create a Space National Guard as the primary combat reserve of the U.S. Space Force.”

“As president, I will sign historic legislation creating a Space National Guard into law,” he continued.

“We will make a historic investment in building a U.S. military for the 21st century, investing heavily in drones, robotics, artificial intelligence, hypersonics,” he added.

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PRESIDENT TRUMP: “One of my proudest achievements in my first term was to create SPACE FORCE, the first new branch of the Armed Forces in over 70 years… Now that Space Force is up and running, I agree with your leadership that the time has come to create a SPACE NATIONAL GUARD… pic.twitter.com/u9ZQphUzOd

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Trump directed the creation of the U.S. Space Force in 2018 as the sixth branch of the armed forces.

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“Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea,” Trump said at the time. “We have the Air Force, we’ll have the space force.”

During his speech in Detroit, Trump added that he wants to create a missile defense system around the U.S. that is similar to Israel’s “Iron Dome.”

“And, we’re going to build a great Iron Dome for missile defense around our nation,” he said. “Other countries have said Israel has it. You know, Ronald Reagan wanted this many years ago, but we didn’t have the technology at that point. But now we have the technology.”

Sixteen Republican-led states filed a lawsuit in partnership with America First Legal against the Biden-Harris administration over a plan to give as many as 1.3 million illegal immigrants what critics call “immediate executive amnesty.”

The lawsuit, filed on Friday, challenges a new parole-in-place program from the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Homeland Security “that effectively provides a new pathway to citizenship for more than a million illegal aliens.”

“Longstanding federal law prohibits aliens who entered the United States unlawfully from obtaining most immigration benefits,” the lawsuit states, addressing the Biden-Harris administration program that would allow some illegal aliens to stay in the United States while requesting parole status.

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“This includes obtaining lawful permanent resident status—without first leaving the United States and waiting outside the United States for the requisite time—based on an approved family-based or employment-based visa petition,” the suit goes on to say.

While the administration has claimed that roughly 550,000 illegal immigrants would be eligible for the parole-in-place amnesty, the lawsuit argues that the figure is “likely a significant underestimate,” also stating that the real number could be as high as 1.3 million.

“Biden’s new parole workaround unilaterally grants the opportunity for citizenship to unvetted aliens whose first act on American soil was to break our laws,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton contended. “This violates the Constitution and actively worsens the illegal immigration disaster that is hurting Texas and our country.”

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The sixteen states that joined the lawsuit as plaintiffs against the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security are Texas, Idaho, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

The lawsuit comes amid an unprecedented crisis on the southern border that has turned immigration into one of the most important issues heading into the November elections.

Over 10 million people have crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration, with an estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded since he was inaugurated in 2021. There were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration.