Gil Barndollar, defense priorities foundation senior fellow, said hosting a detention center at a military installment is a “slippery slope.”
“Are we repurposing the U.S. military—and especially the land forces, primarily the Army and to a secondary extent the Marine Corps—as a border security force?” Barndollar said. “We haven’t done that in any meaningful way in well over a century.”
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