Reply #84: I agree with your points that is a bad move

[grantcart]

I also know that neither the National Guard nor the Border Patrol wants untrained uncoordinated armed people wandering around discharging their weapons.


As in the past it will:


In 2006, President George W. Bush sent thousands of troops to the border to perform support duties that tie up immigration agents. The troops wouldn't perform significant law enforcement duties.


To actually deploy troops with live ammunition would require, among other things, rules of engagement and they are not going to have troops who have not been trained in law enforcement engaging suspects.

Your right that it is a bad move, but they will not be operationally engaged, something that the Pentagon itself would be 100% opposed to.