According to an article by Thaddeus Herrick in the June 22 issue of the Houston Chronicle. changes in the law permitting the military to be used for law enforcement occurred during the Reagan administration and expanded steadily during the Bush and the Clinton administrations. Currently. about 700 troops are being used for law enforcement. mainly for the purpose of enforcing drug laws. However. with the new legislation working its way through Congress. the numbers could grow substantially. This does not include the 6.000 border control agents already manning the borders. a number which is slated to increase to 20.000 over the next 10 years. Lawrence Korb. former Assistants Secretary of Defense under Reagan was and remains critical of the trends toward using military troops in this manner. His argument according to Herrick is that soldiers "whole mindset to is to go to war.
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