Sen. Angus King: There's No Invasion at the Border
(CNSNews.com) - President Trump's order to send active-duty troops to the U.S. Mexico border is a "gray area," Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
He pointed to Posse Comitatus, a longstanding law that says federal troops may not be used for law enforcement:
It gets gray when you get to the border. Now, if indeed there was an invasion, which there isn't, clearly, we can defend ourselves. I mean, that's one of the reasons you have a military. But using troops in a border situation, with asylum seekers, is, I think, not appropriate.
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