ICE Barbie Urges Hegseth To Let Troops Make Arrests

The Daily Beast reports:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to instruct soldiers deployed to Los Angeles to help arrest rioters, even though the military is generally barred from domestic law enforcement.

In a leaked letter, Noem asked Hegseth on Sunday to have the Pentagon give “direction to [Department of Defense] forces to either detain, just as they would at any federal facility guarded by military, lawbreakers under Title 18 until they can be arrested and processed by federal law enforcement, or arrest them,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Legal experts told the Chronicle that Noem’s letter is a “grave escalation” that could be a sign the Trump administration is planning to invoke one of the most extreme emergency powers available to a sitting president.

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EXCLUSIVE: We obtained memo from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem asking DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth to grant soldiers the authority to detain or arrest “lawbreakers” in LA.

This would be a step toward Trump administration invoking Insurrection Act, experts sayhttps://t.co/aCoFBFAJHI

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