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It turns out that even at the time, the entire posse comitatus business was a better idea.

It turns out that even at the time, the entire posse comitatus business was a better idea. Not only can it prevent the military from exercising police power in the United States, it can also prevent the military from being invested in untrained and almost unsuitable law enforcement duties.

The Army Times had a groundbreaking report about the fiasco of the absolute five alarms deployed by the National Guard on the southern border.

The whole mission was a mess from the start of the jump. The former president* deployed a guard to the border in 2018 to deal with the so-called “caravan” of Central American immigrants. Logistic support collapsed almost immediately. The army was sent to the desert at night without night vision equipment. Some of them were sent to positions where there were no immigrants at all. Some people fell asleep at work. In addition, during off hours, the guards are deployed overseas and have never left the country.

Alcoholism has always been rampant, and it can be fatal from time to time. (A guard was hit by "multiple cars" while crossing the road in McAllen, Texas. Another soldier was killed in a government pickup truck when her shirtless colleague sitting on the steering wheel took Several telephone poles came out.) Then there are drugs.

They don't belong there, doing a job they don't want to do at all. Using the army for law enforcement can guarantee that you will fight the South Vietnamese army at some point around 1971. This is a house that needs cleaning, you don't need night vision goggles to see it.