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“When you have this tool waiting at your fingertips, you’re going to want to use it,” [especially if you’re #Trump] Nunn said. “It actually makes it more likely that you’re going to see domestic deployments — because why else have a task force?”
The proposal represents a major departure in how the #NationalGuard traditionally has been used, said Lindsay P. Cohn, an associate professor of #NationalSecurity affairs at the US Naval War College.
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While it is not unusual for #NationalGuard units to be deployed for domestic emergencies within their states, including for civil disturbances, this “is really strange because essentially nothing is happening,” Cohn said.
“Crime is going down. We don’t have major protests or civil disturbances. There is no significant resistance from states” to federal immigration policies, she said. “There is very little evidence anything big is likely to happen soon.”…
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