• mochi@lemdit.com
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    This is all normal for State National Guard units. Training is on the weekends and two weeks out of the year. Religious activities are allowed if they don’t interfere with the mission, which comes first. Lots of States sent National guardsman to the southern border. None of this is new or alarming.

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      Uh…proposing sending a state guard to another state to enforce federal immigration law is VERY new.

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      This isn’t a state national guard, it’s a state guard. According to the legislation that created it, the United States federal government has no jurisdiction over the new state guard and cannot nationalize it, meaning they are unable to control it like they can with a state national guard.

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        That’s fascinating. I wonder if it’s unconstitutional, though. It seems like this is the type of set up the 2nd Amendment was actually talking about rather than Bobby Boy in the woods with an M1 tank because why not.

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      “Not alarming” is relative to experience— to how naive or cynical you are so far. I haven’t been keeping up with these kinds of politics. I live in MN, a trans-refuge state. Wanted to keep my ears as far away from anything Florida-related as possible.