National Guard Has Eyes on the Border. But They’re Not Watching Mexico.
By Manny Fernandez
May 15, 2018
HOUSTON — The hundreds of National Guard troops deployed by President Trump in April are now busy securing the southern border. But when it comes to surveillance, they are forbidden from looking across it.
The troops operating and monitoring high-tech surveillance equipment along the border have been told they are prohibited from using it to look into Mexico. The little-known caveat is part of the legal ground rules for the new National Guard deployment along the southwest border, which calls for troops to operate “up to†the United States-Mexico border, state and federal officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/us/national-guard-texas-mexico.html
