Soldiers used in civilian roles is a possible violation of Posse Comitatus. Something like that may be done, but if A VERY LARGE WALL is constructed, the drug thugs will be forced to smuggle drugs and drugs will become much less profitable.
If you take the unbelievable profit margins that the cheaply built border fence creates and turn it into a very-difficult-to-penetrate wall of steel, drug running suddenly becomes very expensive. You don’t only need a 4X4 to run drugs anymore.
The more pressure you apply to drugs, the more profit you make for the drug cartels.
I'd be in favor of a tough wall on our border, but for reasons other than the scourge of narcotics.
>Soldiers used in civilian roles is a possible violation of Posse Comitatus.
Posse Comitatus is a bullshit feel-good ‘law’ that can be circumvented at virtually any time.
“The Congress shall have Power To [...] provide for calling forth the Militia to **execute the Laws of the Union**, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress”
And even via States:
[My State Constitution]
Art 5, Sec. 4. [Governor’s executive power; commander of militia.]
The supreme executive power of the state shall be vested in the governor, who shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. He shall be commander in chief of the military forces of the state, except when they are called into the service of the United States. He shall have power to call out the militia to preserve the public peace, **execute the laws**, suppress insurrection and repel invasion.