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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "In his first term, Trump also ordered active duty troops to the border to help the Department of Homeland Security and border control agents, in response to a caravan of migrants slowly making its way through Mexico toward the United States in 2018.
47% : "U.S. active duty troops are forbidden from doing law enforcement duties under the Posse Comitatus Act, a 19th century federal law.
45% : So they can´t arrest or detain people at the border, unless the president acts to invoke the Insurrection Act.
39% : In executive orders signed Monday, Trump suggested the military would help DHS with "detention space, transportation (including aircraft), and other logistics services.
33% : Trump has directed through executive order that the incoming secretary of defense and incoming homeland security chief report back within 90 days if they think an 1807 law called the Insurrection Act should be invoked.
31% : "On Tuesday, just as Trump fired the Coast Guard commandant, Adm. Linda Fagan, the service announced it was surging more cutter ships, aircraft and personnel to the "Gulf of America" - another nod to the president´s directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
25% : In one of his first orders on Monday, Trump directed the defense secretary to come up with a plan to "seal the borders" and repel "unlawful mass migration.
23% : Trump said during his inaugural address on Monday that "I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.

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