EverCurious
Gold Member
U.S. Customs and Border Protection are the ones who do the detaining and arresting. I'm betting that we're smart enough to pair the additional soldiers up with an CBP officer to assist in detaining them (for as long as CBP wants to do so - until ICE gets there a few days, months, years, or decades later even. Obama authorized indefinite detainment FYI,) or they can indeed arrest them on a federal felony (for things like refusing to answer questions, lying to them, smuggling illegal goods, carrying false documentation, or attacking them. I'm betting there are a shit ton of other reasons they can arrest them as well.) However, the reality is that we don't want to arrest them though, if we do that then some bleeding heart idiots will take up their case.
What we really want is to keep them out, to scare them into not trying to cross the border, and I highly suspect that's the real goal with the military. I bet they'll be walking around bristling with weapons looking like they're going to blow these would be illegals away. I'd like to see some armored transport vehicles deployed (those are the ones that scare the piss out of lefties when the police buy em off the military.) I'd like to see actual tanks down there, call it a training exercise and let our soldiers get real familiar with their tools in a more laid back situation.
Psychological warfare - we can use their fear to keep them out. See, where they come from, they can be gunned down for no reason at all by those in power.
What we really want is to keep them out, to scare them into not trying to cross the border, and I highly suspect that's the real goal with the military. I bet they'll be walking around bristling with weapons looking like they're going to blow these would be illegals away. I'd like to see some armored transport vehicles deployed (those are the ones that scare the piss out of lefties when the police buy em off the military.) I'd like to see actual tanks down there, call it a training exercise and let our soldiers get real familiar with their tools in a more laid back situation.
Psychological warfare - we can use their fear to keep them out. See, where they come from, they can be gunned down for no reason at all by those in power.