Colleagues, this amendment would grant the Pentagon open ended authority to hire troops and private military contractors for routine border enforcement, blurring the bright line between national defense and domestic policing. Our armed forces exist to deter foreign Adversaries not to police immigration checkpoints. Every soldier, aircraft and dollar shifted to the border is taken from critical missions such as deterring aggression in the Indo-Pacific, responding to disasters, or safeguarding sea lanes. And before you say what could be more important to our national security than stopping an invasion, I'll remind you that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff appointed … (03:01–03:11)
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Asserts that resources used at the border detract from other critical military missions.
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