Professor Emeritus William C. Banks spoke with AZ Central/The Arizona Republic for the story, “What Trump’s executive order on the Roosevelt Reservation means at the Arizona border.”
“Symbolically, it puts the military right in the center of immigration enforcement,” said Banks, who has studied and written about the use of the military in the U.S. interior.
“When (the military) has been deployed in recent years, including in the Bush and Obama (administration) … they’ve been undertaking activities that we would not call law enforcement. The worry, historically, about putting soldiers in the position of cops is that they’re not trained to do that. Their orientation is entirely different — they’re trained as warfighters, not as law enforcers,” he said.