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The Trump administration cleverly transferred part of the ‘Roosevelt Reservation’, a border strip of land, to the US Army which it will control and be able to arrest and prevent illegal alien invaders from crossing.
It’s a clever gimmick for getting the military to secure the border.
Once the Army accepts jurisdiction of that land, it will become part of a national defense area — a specified piece of federal land over which DOD maintains administrative authority and jurisdiction and is permitted to establish and enforce a controlled perimeter and access.
The area will be considered an extension of Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
To deter unlawful entry, service members will construct and position temporary barriers, detect and monitor the use of routes across or adjacent to the area and apprehend individuals who breach the barriers. Service members will place signs and construct temporary barriers to visibly indicate the boundaries.
Under the new arrangement, military personnel will continue to work together with U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel to establish and enforce a controlled perimeter and controlled access to the area as part of an effort to repel unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, migrant smuggling, human trafficking and other cross-border criminal activities.
.@SecretaryBurgum: We’re transferring the Roosevelt Reservation to the DOD. If someone now steps across the border onto that strip controlled by the Department of Defense, they’re basically trespassing on a Defense installation… that allows our military to detain someone until… pic.twitter.com/WjEQbRWXYQ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 18, 2025
It’s, as I said, clever, and there are clever people coming up with this stuff, but like a lot of gimmicks, it may not survive a legal challenge even at the Supreme Court level. The next step will probably be employing the Insurrection Act, but unlike the BLM riots, it’s also unnecessary.
Put plainly, if the Army can’t be deployed to secure the border, then it has no function. The notion that it’s illegal to use the Army to secure the border contradicts the very concept of what an Army is.
The objections derive from the Posse Comitatus Act, a dubious piece of legislation championed by ex-slave politicians and radical labor sympathizers or, in short, Democrats, but while some of their objections to using the military to suppress domestic opposition were legitimate, the Act clearly cannot and does not apply to securing the border which is not a matter of enforcing domestic laws, but securing the border from external invasion.
Eisenhower’s use of the Insurrection Act to enforce desegregation, exactly the kind of thing that the Posse Comitatus Act was meant to prevent, already made a mockery of the Act.
But let’s get back to the Posse Comitatus Act which does not apply to deployments “expressly authorized by the Constitution”. The original purpose of the Army was to secure the border from external invasions.
Long after the Posse Comitatus Act had been passed, the United States Army was stationed at the Mexican border during the incidents in the early 20th century.
President Trump has the right to deploy the Army to secure the border. And it’s important to make the point that every administration has the right to do that without resorting to gimmicks. To secure the border is not a policing power, but a matter of securing the nation. The Army is not being treated like a ‘posse’ here, but is performing its primary function.
Either that or get around the whole matter by transferring control of the US Army to the Coast Guard.
That would be a silly and unnecessary gimmick. It’s important to both secure the border and create a clear precedent for doing so in the future.
That’s a point: due to the obstacle course of Congress and MSM one has to use gimmicks to get anything done.
Similar to Ancient Rome which I’ve been reading about.
Well, it may be a “gimmick” but the Coast Guard is essentially exempted from Posse Comitatus. A Coast Guard officer can board a US Naval vessel, replace the Navy Ensign with a CG Ensign and, VOILA, instant Coast Guard cutter loaded with oodles of neat weaponry. This, theoretically, could apply to an aircraft carrier as well…..not to mention a Marine or Airborne Division who become redesignated as “activated” Coast Guard Reservists. The problem, unfortunately, is that the Coast Guard has become the Premier Woke Dancing Prancers of the DEI infestation and has been for about 10 years now. This may be reversible if the powers that be fired every CG officer from 0-4 down to 0-1 (and ALL academy graduates) and every Admiral that has been flagged from about 2015 on. Lots of luck with this one.
Their Invading America the Corrupt Mexican Government wants Open Borders(Just like t he Demo-Rats Want)a totally disarmed American People and More Demo-Rat Voters their(The Democrats)are Traitors and the Enemy
The socialists and their hired congressmen are becoming desperate. There will be no limits to their actions to retain power. We can easily see where this is heading if we look towards England and their police state. No free speech, control by muslim money from overseas and no economic independence.
The only question is, will our fellow citizens roll over and enjoy it as our english cousins have. The pathetic thing is that the results of socialism and corruption are evident everyday in the scene of illegals crossing the border. Ordinary people are screwed and want to leave these perfect societies. If you bring up this obvious fallacy, shrieking begins immediately showing that the indoctrination plans have been successful. We live in interesting times.
If the Trump administration really wanted to get creative and clever, they would start funneling illegal aliens coming across our borders into the neighborhoods of where the wealthy liberals live and house them in the ritzy hotels where the wealthy libs like to stay. Especially in the so-called “sanctuary cities.” That’s shoving their own bullsh*t right back in their stupid faces. I’d even go so far as to provide the illegals with tents so they can start building homeless camps in their neighborhoods too.
Wealthy liberals never have to live or deal with the consequences of their votes, policies and sentiments. It’s time those consequences be forced upon them. We’ve been spinning our wheels on this issue for decades and getting nowhere.
It’s time to stop talking and actually do something. Unfortunately, most people would rather talk about the problem than do something with tangible and consequences about this problem. Meanwhile, to our peril, the problem grows exponentially worse.