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None of the authorities that are at issue with this new tranche of DOD support constitute an

express exception to the

Posse Comitatis Act, which is to say that none of these authorities authorize the military

personnel to take on a law enforcement function.

It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson with Chris Marasola,

assistant professor at the University of Houston Law Center.

So long as you have governors who are willing to make their National Guard members available for a border security mission,

and there's plenty of evidence of governors being comfortable with that from the First Trump administration,

you have a really

large population of military personnel that you can draw from to execute these kind of missions at

the southern border. Today, we're talking about how the Trump administration is using the military

to enforce its new immigration policies thus far, And what else may be coming down the pike?

So, Chris, we are a week and a little change into the second Trump administration.

And we are at the point now where we are beginning to see a number of actions that are making good to various extents, although perhaps not fully in the

ways some might have expected, on some of the campaign promises President Trump made about

engaging in immigration enforcement more broadly, but specifically about using the military

for immigration enforcement and potentially for other domestic purposes, but so far really

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