Military support to detention and deportation would harm readiness

Plans for the military to participate in the detention and deportation of 9 million immigrants will foreseeably undermine the well-being of current service members and future veterans while damaging the morale, reputation and readiness of our nation’s armed forces.  

Americans have historically rejected attempts to muddle the distinction between military and civilian authority. The Bill of Rights was designed to guard against this. The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act (literally “the power of...