White House Chief of Staff John Kelly signed an order late Tuesday that allows U.S. troops stationed at the border use lethal force, if necessary, to stop illegal immigrants from crossing into the United States, it was revealed.
But his move, done to combat a caravan of migrants making their way from Central America to the United States, could be illegal.
‘The brave men and women at Customs Border and Protection willingly put themselves in extremely dangerous situations every day to protect Americans and their families. The President’s authorization ensures the Department of Defense can step in to protect those who protect us,’ Deputy White House Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement.
Kelly’s aggressive stance comes amid reports he and his protégé Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen could be on their way out the door with President Donald Trump said to be particularly angry that Nielsen is not tough enough on illegal immigration.
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly signed an order late Tuesday that allows U.S. troops stationed at the border use lethal force, if necessary
A White House official told DailyMail.com the authorization came from the president and Kelly was merely communicating the instructions.
The official also said the military is not doing ‘law enforcement’ but will be there to protect border agents should the situation require it.
‘Law enforcement’ could violate the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which restricts the use of the U.S. military as a police force.
The order, set forth in a ‘Cabinet memo,’ will likely be challenged in court.
It comes after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the administration’s ban on asylum for illegal immigrants, a decision that infuriated President Trump.
Trump did not sign the ‘Cabinet memo’ allowing the use of force, but the president did sign an earlier ‘decision memo’ that included similar recommendations, according to Newsweek.
United States President Donald J. Trump, center left, and First Lady Melania Trump, center right, listen while speaking to Marines with John Kelly, White House chief of staff, left, at Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C., U.S, on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018
The order allows troops to perform activities Defense Secretary James Mattis deems necessary to protect border agents, such as ‘a show or use of force (including lethal force, where necessary), crowd control, temporary detention. and cursory search,’ according to the Military Times.
Experts say the authorized authority could cross the legal line.
‘They are pushing DoD’s authority right up to the line of what is permitted without violating the restrictions of Posse Comitatus. Active duty personnel can respond in self-defense of border officials but the perfect world does not exist in factual reality in which this subjective concept can be neatly applied to the environment of border enforcement,’ Brad Moss, a Washington, D.C. based attorney specializing in national security, told Newsweek.
There are approximately 5,900 active-duty troops and 2,100 National Guard forces deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border.
In the ‘Cabinet memo’ that he signed, Kelly justified the action by arguing ‘credible evidence and intelligence’ had suggested the migrants ‘may prompt incidents of violence and disorder.’
Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon Wednesday troops would not violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
Retired United States Marine Corps general and White House Chief of Staff John F Kelly visits the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial in Belleau, on November 10, 2018 as part of commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the 11 November 1918 armistice, ending World War 1
The president has done little to tamp down speculation Kelly's days in the White House could be numbered. The order, set forth in a ‘Cabinet memo,’ will likely be challenged in court
‘I now have the authority to do more. Now we’ll see what she asks me’ to do, Mattis said, referring to Nielsen.
Trump has also advocated for greater force from the military, saying at an event earlier this month: ‘Anybody throwing stones, rocks, like they did to Mexico and the Mexican military, Mexican police, where they badly hurt police and soldiers of Mexico, we will consider that a firearm. We’re not going to put up with that. They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. I told them to consider it a rifle.’
Around 3,000 people from the first of the caravans have arrived in Tijuana, Mexico, across the border from San Diego, California. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday that it closed off northbound traffic for several hours at the San Ysidro crossing.
It has also installed movable, wire-topped barriers, apparently to stop a potential mass rush of people.
Trump has been trying to make a virtual wall of U.S. troops and barbed wire to stop the immigrants as he fights with Congress to get his billion dollar border wall built.
Trump has been railing against a migrant caravan making its way from Central America toward the United States.
He made it a huge issue in the midterm elections, particularly as he campaigned for GOP Senate candidates running in states he won in 2016. Republicans were able to knock off four Democratic senators in these red states.
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Main photo article White House Chief of Staff John Kelly signed an order late Tuesday that allows U.S. troops stationed at the border use lethal force, if necessary, to stop illegal immigrants from crossing into the United States, it was revealed.
But his move, done to combat a caravan of migrants making their way...
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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