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. (02:55–03:01)
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Asserts that the primary role of armed forces is to deter foreign adversaries, not manage immigration checkpoints.
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