Posse Comitatus Act
Opinion | Trump’s troop buildup at the border violates centuries of Anglo-American law
The principle is the prohibition of military involvement in domestic law enforcement. Its abridgement was prominent among the charges laid on King George in the Declaration of Independence — Jefferson wrote that the crown “has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” And its common law roots are far stronger and older, dating at least to Magna Carta.
The legal provision that encapsulates the principle is the Posse Comitatus Act. The law was passed in 1878, following widespread, heavy-handed use of Union troops to exercise typical law enforcement functions in the former Confederate states. In its current form, it provides criminal penalties for anyone who “willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse comitatus” — that is, as an auxiliary of law enforcement — “or otherwise to execute the laws.” There is an exception for circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or an act of Congress, which Congress invoked for example in authorizing limited military involvement in the war on drugs.
Its obscure name and rare deployment notwithstanding, the Posse Comitatus Act enshrines the bedrock democratic idea that civil society is separate from and superior to military force, and that regulation of citizens by military is antithetical to liberty.
Protecting the border is domestic law enforcement? Seems a stretch.
The military isn't going there to protect the border. They going they're to get out the vote. To placate the pathetic fears of abject cowards.
1. There is nothing cowardly about being against Third World Immigration.
2. Your only "point" against number one, is to insult me. That is you admitting that you have no real argument in favor of the illegals and your support of them.
3. You lose.