Trump grants military control over strip of federal land along US southern border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump authorized the military to operate in the same area during his first administration to aid construction of a wall to deter migrant crossings.
43% : The centuries-old law would allow Trump to deploy additional U.S. military to the southern border and order troops to aid law enforcement in carrying out domestic policies.
38% : " Immigration, military and legal experts have said that Trumps' move to militarize the border could raise legal questions about potential violations to the Posse Comitatus Act, a federal law that generally prohibits active-duty troops from being used in domestic law enforcement.
29% : But illegal border crossings have plunged to historic lows since Trump took office.
24% : "Welp they're doing the Roosevelt Reservation crazy strategy, giving the military 'jurisdiction' over a 60-foot-wide stretch of land from CA to AZ and then claim that migrants are being arrested for "trespassing on military property" thus trying to bypass the Posse Commitatus Act," Reichlin-Melnick said in a post on X. The Friday action comes as Trump has asked the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to submit recommendations by April 20 on whether he should use the Insurrection Act of 1807 to boost his mass deportations campaign.

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