BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK
The Trump Administration has authorized the U.S. military to take control of the US-Mexico border. This authorization came late Friday, this order stated:
“Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats,” the order claimed. “The complexity of the current situation requires that our military take a more direct role in securing our southern border than in the recent past.”
After 45 days, the Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, will assess the initial phase of the military rollout and could either extend or cancel the order.
This order excludes Native American reservations.
From The Guardian:
The ruling comes after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the new requirement on 25 February, adding that those who failed to report could face fines or possible prison time.
The DHS’s announcement was widely seen as a workaround of the Posse Comitatus Act, a federal law that bars US military troops from participating in most civilian law enforcement actions.
One of the purported justifications for militarizing the US border most commonly cited by Trump and his Republican colleagues is that people crossing the border with Mexico without permission carry much of the fentanyl sold in the US. Yet official statistics show 90% of convicted fentanyl peddlers are US citizens.
Is America turning into a militarized country? Most say it already has turned that corner decades ago after the 1950's.
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