Military border deployments are legally good-to-go, IG finds
Meghann Myers
The Pentagon’s mobilization of thousands of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border is fully legal, the Defense Department’s inspector general confirmed in a report released Tuesday.
In providing aviation support, installing concertina wire and staffing mobile surveillance sites, the IG found, the troops are fully compliant with federal law and DoD policy.
“Additionally, we determined that DoD title 10 personnel had limited contact with civilians or migrants and contact that did occur was acceptable under DoD policy,†according to the report, which surveyed troops from October 2018 to December 2019.
Under pressure from Congress, the IG announced a review late last year.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/08/19/military-border-deployments-are-legally-good-to-go-ig-finds/
