The US military, by constitutional law, cannot operate within the borders of the USA. I do think there was a small deployment of US military to New Orleans after Katrina hit, but, one of the first things General Honore ordered getting out of his helicopter was to put all guns down. He stated these people were Americans and would not be harmed by the US military.
Normally, in circumstances that need armed detachment or larger authority, the state's National Guard is deployed. Katrina was an emergency and people were stranded and dying. There was no way in or no way out and the USA military had the capacity to end the suffering early.
By Jennifer Epstein and Justin Sink
President Donald Trump (click here) said he plans to deploy the U.S. military to guard the border with Mexico and has told Mexican leaders he would abandon Nafta without assurances of help on securing the boundary.
"We are going to do some things, I’ve been talking to General Mattis, we’re going to be doing things militarily until we can have a wall and proper security," Trump said Tuesday during a meeting with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. "We’re going to be guarding our border with the military."
Trump has previously suggested that he could use money allocated for the U.S. military to construct the border wall for which he has so far been unable to secure congressional funding. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to say how Trump would re-direct the funding, which likely would require additional congressional approval.
The Defense Department has in the past helped the Department of Homeland Security with border security measures, and George W. Bush and Barack Obama both deployed National Guard troops to the border during their presidency to bolster security....
The problem with the Trump plan is that it is unilateral and does not assist Mexico with it's national security. Mexico has to be a full partner for any border guard to succeed. I know the USA military will not be killing children at the border.
Mexico's national security should be a high priority for the US Congress and seek any and all methods that will defeat the drug cartels and the armed encampments in towns and cities across Mexico. The US military does have intelligence about the drug cartel operations and there were military sent to Belize at one point as well as Mexico when the cartels were not suppressed by any Mexican operation. I know Secretary Gates deployed some troops to Mexico for those reasons.
I think the country has to see what the Joint Chiefs say about all this and there may even be constitutional complaints to the Supreme Court to prevent the US military to operation inside the borders of the USA. It is a very bad precedent and General Honore's model of a disarmed military with a mission of compassion really is the only acceptable place for the US military in modern America.
Mexico's national security should be a high priority for the US Congress and seek any and all methods that will defeat the drug cartels and the armed encampments in towns and cities across Mexico. The US military does have intelligence about the drug cartel operations and there were military sent to Belize at one point as well as Mexico when the cartels were not suppressed by any Mexican operation. I know Secretary Gates deployed some troops to Mexico for those reasons.
I think the country has to see what the Joint Chiefs say about all this and there may even be constitutional complaints to the Supreme Court to prevent the US military to operation inside the borders of the USA. It is a very bad precedent and General Honore's model of a disarmed military with a mission of compassion really is the only acceptable place for the US military in modern America.
