Deployed to the border: A test of conscience for GI’s
Critical legal info for US service members concerned about legality of orders to deploy to the US-Mexico border.
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Category: News & OpEd
January 2019 Newsletter
PDF updates: Illegal orders at the border, Resistance through dance, Deployed to the border: A test of conscience, The Objector Church.
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Troops ordered to engage in illegal law enforcement near US-Mexico border
“Cabinet order” stands in direct violation of federal law assumed to safeguard against martial law.
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Why the deployment of active-duty troops to the border is illegal
Decision to send thousands of troops to the US-Mexican border is not just a bald-faced political stunt — it is also illegal.
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Open letter to active duty soldiers on the border
Letter and PDF leaflet for distribution to the troops deployed in support of Trump’s war on migrant refugees.
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Federal commission on mandatory military service working on report
Bipartisan committee working on question of whether draft registration should be ended, extended to women, or something else.
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