[equaviator]

It should be out of an abundance of caution that we bring the Air National Guard to border states with airfields...We don't want to have to use it but as long as they know what we've got here where the grass is so much greener, what could go wrong?

[BeauBo]

I wasn’t talking about lethal air power, but rather airborne reconnaissance, surveillance and C4I (Command, Control, Computing, Communications and Intelligence).

I don’t anticipate any JAG’s approving of firing on unarmed non-combatant immigrants.

Drug cartels are another matter altogether though. The likelihood of Military action against them seems to have risen in the last year, with very high level meetings with the Mexican Government (President, Foreign Minister, Chief of their Armed Forces).

We have long had a standing Joint Task Force (JTF-B) focused on Counter-Narcotics, and in the past we were active in operations against Colombian cartels (e.g. Pablo Escobar).

I would imagine that any lethal Military Force would be like that - Special Ops, Intelligence and Law Enforcement; working with the Host Nation Government. It would probably just require a few drones, and possibly helicopters.