You are correct about Posse Comitatus, it is up to Congress to make the change. But is that something we really want? I can already hear the cries now about "jack-booted thugs" and "Bush is a Nazi". It just never ceases to amaze me though, that some people on this forum think Bush can just order the military on the border and that will solve the problem.
Order the military to guard the US border? Why, that would be too much to ask the president to do. Oh wait. Didn't he order the military go around the world to Iraq and Afghanistan. oops.
I really don't think the Posse Comitatus Act covers the borders. The borders are international terrorities. How wide the terrority exists in terms of mileage from the border should be clearly defined.
It just never ceases to amaze me though, that some people on this forum think Bush can just order the military on the border and that will solve the problem.
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Actually this has already been done quietly in New Mexico for training purposes. The results have been great. But I don't think the thing was extended. There was plenty of footage on this at Fox a couple months back. Might have been some relationship between the coverage and the brevity of the program.
As it is there are several training grounds close to the Mexican border that have trouble with illegals sometimes overruning their bases.
Current US border policy is to not offend in any way Mexican soldiers crossing into US territory to protect narco trafficers.