BY JOSEPH TREVITHICK-APRIL 3, 2018...THEDRIVE...
A small, obscure office in El Paso, Texas called Joint Task Force-North (JTF-N), is responsible for reviewing and managing requests for military support on American soil from law enforcement agencies at the federal, state, and local levels and in coordination with tribal authorities on Native American reservations.
2)Military units, or private companies under contract to military commands, can provide actual military support, as well. Predominantly these missions take the form of providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets on the ground, at sea, or in the air – including unmanned aircraft and remotely operated sensors – moving personnel and materiel rapidly across long distances or to remote locations, and engineering services, such as building roads, bridges, barriers, and outposts.
Of course, ordering federal troops to the border through JTF-N isn’t the only option Trump has to get the military onto the border and it might not necessarily be the fastest. The U.S. military could find a legal justification to tap into its emergency construction budget to support work on the border wall or otherwise improve other border infrastructure, such as roads, observation posts, and the removal of obstructions that can block various surveillance systems.
That picture of military wall building gives me an idea. Whereever possible along the border, Trump should establish military forts or strongholds in his role as commander in chief. And, what does every fort need? Walls. Put the forts along the border and build a big wall with defense money. Each fort can be 100 feet deep and 10 miles long, with buildings or tents intermittently dispersed.
Many thanks, NIKK !
I recall something about the fedgov having some right-of-way along the southern border.
This would give them leeway to put the military there, along with building the wall.