Interesting ...Govt. report says Trump has legal authority to order Pentagon to build border wall without emergency declaration, Congress
10 U.S.C. § 284 (Section 284) provides that the Secretary of Defense ‘may provide support for the counterdrug activities or activities to counter transnational organized crime’ of any law enforcement agency, including through the ‘(c)onstruction of roads and fences and installation of lighting to block drug smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States,'” the paper states.
“Use of Section 284 would not require a declaration of a national emergency under the NEA.”
But, the CRS paper continued, “the DOD’s Section 284 authority to construct fences appears to extend only to ‘drug smuggling corridors,’ a condition that may limit where DOD could deploy fencing.”
That said, one congressional aide told The Daily Caller that “drug smuggling corridors” are not legally defined in the law.
https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/01/26/govt-report-says-trump-has-legal-authority-to-order-pentagon-to-build-border-wall-without-emergency-declaration-congress/
