Pentagon to send up to 1,500 troops to help secure US-Mexico border - officials

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : So they cannot arrest or detain people at the border, unless the president acts to invoke the Insurrection Act.
44% : Mr Trump has directed through executive order that the incoming secretary of defence and incoming homeland security chief report back within 90 days if they think an 1807 law called the Insurrection Act should be invoked.
35% : In executive orders signed on Monday, Mr Trump suggested the military would help DHS with "detention space, transportation (including aircraft), and other logistics services". US active duty troops are forbidden from doing law enforcement duties under the Posse Comitatus Act, a 19th century federal law.

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