ICE Left Scrambling After Being Blindsided by Trump's Airport Decision

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And they've already caused an incident by assaulting and arresting an American citizen - of, of course, a specific ethnicity - because she could not "sufficiently" prove her citizenship status.

At an international airport.

The US of A needs a paramilitary police force to deploy whenever and wherever needed. The lack of a national police force has caused a great deal of pearl clutching because of this ICE assignment. The new force can be put under the direct control of the President, who is, after all, the CINC of all American armed forces.

The "pearl clutching" isn't because it's ICE, but precisely because ICE is under the direct control of the President.

We have a law called the Posse Comitatus Act that specifically forbids the use of federal troops for law enforcement. It was passed because deploying troops in American states puts too much power in the hands of the President.

We already do have such a "paramilitary force", called the National Guard, which is under the control of the governors. It can be deployed federally when called on by Congress.

The President can also do it, in a state of emergency, but this President declared a state of emergency the moment he took the oath of office. If you genuinely believe that the nation is in a constant state of emergency, now and forever, then perhaps it's time to reconsider much more than just who is running the airports.

Isn't ice the implementation of exactly what you're suggesting a new force be? They're already federal law enforcement.

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