Thread: Armed Mexican troops turned back illegal aliens at U.S. border Why can't we

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

That is a personal attack.

On whom?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes

Originally Posted by Jean

Sometimes we get passionate and frustrated but please avoid name calling. Perhaps at times we best just agree to disagree. Thank you.

The looney tunes comment was not directed at anyone in particular. It was directed at those enemies of our cause who refuse to fund and support funding of manpower needed to secure our border, any and all of whom that may include. Am I misunderstanding our objective here? I thought we supported manpower on the borders. I thought we supported troops on the borders. I thought we supported more border patrol on the borders. I thought we supported securing our borders with manpower. Perhaps I need an update on exactly what our policy is on securing the border.

Thank you.

Repelling invaders is not enforcing a domestic law. It is an international border, and if we can't use our military to enforce our own international border - then less disband it.

We don't need to fund an organization to guard borders in other countries. If that is the case, we must stop calling the US Military.

From US Northern Command. We have "troops" on the border - The National guard has been going to the border, perhaps not in numbers needed, for years.

U.S. Northern Command

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The Posse Comitatus Act

May 16, 2013

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Section 1385 of Title 18, United States Code (USC), states:

“Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

The PCA does not apply to the U.S. Coast Guard in peacetime or to the National Guard in Title 32 or State Active Duty status. The substantive prohibitions of the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) were extended to all the services with the enactment of Title 10 USC, Section 375. As required by Title 10 USC, Section 375 the secretary of defense issued Department of Defense Directive 5525.5, which precludes members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps from direct participation in a search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity unless participation in such activity by such member is otherwise authorized by law.

The PCA generally prohibits U.S. military personnel from direct participation in law enforcement activities. Some of those law enforcement activities would include interdicting vehicles, vessels, and aircraft; conducting surveillance, searches, pursuit and seizures; or making arrests on behalf of civilian law enforcement authorities. Prohibiting direct military involvement in law enforcement is in keeping with long-standing U.S. law and policy limiting the military’s role in domestic affairs.

The United States Congress has enacted a number of exceptions to the PCA that allow the military, in certain situations, to assist civilian law enforcement agencies in enforcing the laws of the U.S. The most common example is counterdrug assistance (Title 10 USC, Sections 371-381). Other examples include:

• The Insurrection Act (Title 10 USC, Sections 331-335). This act allows the president to use U.S. military personnel at the request of a state legislature or governor to suppress insurrections. It also allows the president to use federal troops to enforce federal laws when rebellion against the authority of the U.S. makes it impracticable to enforce the laws of the U.S.
• Assistance in the case of crimes involving nuclear materials (Title 18 USC, Section 831). This statute permits DoD personnel to assist the Justice Department in enforcing prohibitions regarding nuclear materials, when the attorney general and the secretary of defense jointly determine that an “emergency situation” exists that poses a serious threat to U.S. interests and is beyond the capability of civilian law enforcement agencies.
• Emergency situations involving chemical or biological weapons of mass destruction (Title 10 USC, Section 382). When the attorney general and the secretary of defense jointly determine that an “emergency situation” exists that poses a serious threat to U.S. interests and is beyond the capability of civilian law enforcement agencies. DoD personnel may assist the Justice Department in enforcing prohibitions regarding biological or chemical weapons of mass destruction.

Military support to civilian law enforcement is carried out in strict compliance with the Constitution and U.S. laws and under the direction of the president and secretary of defense.

http://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Fac...comitatus-act/

Securing the borders of the United States is not "posse comitatus", it's national defense, the whole purpose of having an Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Air Force to ward off invasions.

The Commander In Chief needs to get our troops on the border to build that WALL now.

Our troops were given authorization to build the Alaska Highway in less than 10 months due to fear of Japanese invasion.

We have been invaded, we ARE being and invaded and it will not stop.

ALL HANDS ON DECK AND GET IT DONE...USE THE MILITARY BUDGET TO DO IT!