Posse Comitatus Act prevents the President or Federal government from using the Military as law enforcement within our borders...for the most part.
The military can help local law enforcement with duties of theirs, but they can not do the actual jobs of border protection. They can't use their arms either.....
And if asylum seekers reach our border, the law requires we take them in, and follow the legal process to determine if they are legal asylum seekers, meeting the criteria for asylum, and that process takes about a year.
Nonsense! US presidents have employed the National Guard inside the US a number of times. GW Bush did in 2006. Obama did in 2011. In 1957, when Arkansas Governer Orville Faubus called out the National Guard to enforce segregation, then President Eisenhower federalized those troops and put them under HIS command (to integrate the schools). On top of that Ike also sent in US federal troops.
As for the asylum issue, it is about to undergo a rapid and deep overhaul. Days of foreigners treating our border like it was their toy, are over.
They have been sent to assist border patrol on several occasions and this will be no different.... they were not allowed to use their guns, they were not allowed to officially arrest anyone....they were allowed to assist the border patrol but not be militarized....
Trump made it sound like they were going there with arms in hand and were going to use them if someone crossed the border, and that simply is not the case.....
that's all I am saying....
You and everyone else can go and pretend all you want....that this is some BIGLEY macho Trumpian effort to fight the enemy....I can't stop you....