Apr. 09, 2025 |
Patrolling the border. Last year, Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency again after focusing much of his campaign on a promise to curb illegal immigration. Now that he’s in office, he’s ordered American troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. By March 1, there were some 9,000 active-duty troops there, two U.S. warships patrolling nearby waters, and aircraft flying surveillance runs.
As it happens, the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the U.S. military from carrying out domestic law enforcement. Why are U.S. law enforcement and military forces converging?
A look at Osamah F. Khalil’s A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden.
—Gustav Jönsson
