Pentagon to Send 1,500 Additional Troops to Secure U.S.-Mexico Border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Their primary role is to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with logistical tasks, transportation, and surveillance.
49% : The use of commander-in-chief powers to conduct military operations against migrants would be a stunning abuse of power, even by Trump's standards. ...
48% : The Pentagon is preparing to deploy up to 1,500 soldiers to help secure the southern border as President Trump intensifies efforts to address the surge of migrants crossing into the United States.
47% : This announcement follows just days after Trump signed a series of executive orders related to military involvement at the border.
46% : However, the new order from Trump could push the military into a more direct role in border enforcement, raising significant legal concerns.
45% : Trump had promised during his campaign to deploy active-duty military forces to the border.
39% : "In this executive order, Trump seems to be bypassing the Insurrection Act and going straight to the president's inherent constitutional authority to repel foreign invasions -- with enormous implications for the use of force, cross-border operations, detention authority, etc.," she wrote on the social platform X. "Of course, unlawful migration is not an 'invasion' in any legal sense.

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