- The Army is subject to UCMJ (what laws are ICE subject to?) In particular, this means[0] they are aware of the duty to disobey manifestly unlawful orders, and their officers are aware they are responsible for their subordinates' actions.
- The Army has been integrating ever since Executive Order 9981, which is to say decades before the rest of the country. (what about ICE, how integrated are they?)
- In principle, at least some Army units train in Crowd Control in Urban Terrain, reading formal manuals covering theory and practice; how much training[1] do ICE units get?
- The Army is big on acting honorably[2] and professionally. Can we say that of ICE?
In other words, an invocation of the Insurrection Act might well be going from the fire into the frying-pan.
What am I missing?
[0] Is this still true? Or did it change after 2003? It used to be in all the books for enlisted personnel. Anyone have a recent Soldier's Handbook to hand?
[1] IIUC, one reason Tiananmen Square went all pear-shaped in 1989 is because at least the PLA (what about the PAP?) did not possess riot-trained units at the time.
[2] yes, there bad apples. In principle, they get prosecuted. It doesn't help when the bad apples get sentenced at court-martial but the Big Apple pardons them.
This theory is from 1954:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#:~...
but I believe that spirit still applies, at least it held up until 2020:
https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/CJCS%20Memo%20to%20...