Pentagon will send troops to border to boost security, airlift out migrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Active-duty troops are forbidden from conducting law enforcement activities unless the president decides to invoke the Insurrection Act, a 19th-century U.S. law.
43% : The Pentagon's Transportation Command will use military aircraft to send more than 5,000 undocumented immigrants from San Diego and El Paso, Texas, who are detained by Customs and Border Protection, Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said in a statement.
34% : While the troops will not carry out law enforcement activities, Trump said he would decide within 90 days whether to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow them to do so.
28% : "[Trump] seems to be treating migration as if it were in the same way he would treat an armed attack from a foreign government," said Elizabeth Goitein, a co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

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