Anon posted link to this in a previous bread.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/24/trump-wall-no-state-of-emergency/
Here is a snippet:
Another statute that authorizes the Secretary of Defense to assist civilian law enforcement with counterdrug activities may provide some authority for the construction of barriers along the border. 10 U.S.C. § 284 (Section 284) provides that the Secretary of Defense “may provide support for the counterdrug activities or activities to counter transnational organized crime” of any law enforcement agency, including through the “[c]onstruction of roads and fences and installation of lighting to block drug smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States.” …
Use of Section 284 would not require a declaration of a national emergency under the NEA. However, the DOD’s Section 284 authority to construct fences appears to extend only to “drug smuggling corridors,” a condition that may limit where DOD could deploy fencing.
Here is the doc
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5694004-Congressional-Research-Service-Can-the.html#document/p1
V. Fkng Interdasting read.
Note that POTUS has moved the DEMS into a corner where Pelosi has refused to consider authorization of funding to build a WALL.
Does she know what she means?
DEMS within her majority in the House (and many DEMS within the minority in the Senate) talk about a fence or barrier, as POTUS has sometimes said, and that points like a laser beam right at what we already have.
As Q would say, we have more than we know.
In addition, DEMS have insisted on funding other projects/items that POTUS wants – and they have done so while backing up into Pelosi's no-wall corner. The compromise that may break the deadlock would look like a fig-leaf of a "win" for Pelosi because she'd not approve new funding for new wall sections; but that funding and those sections will be funded through alternative means already in-hand.
Re-read POTUS on the SOTU and consideration of alternatives. He chose the House over a different venue, right? If this analysis is close to what is already done, then, those remarks point at reinforcing the role of the House as a constitutional institution that has to flex its muscles or become irrelevant. POTUS will have made the House – including Pelosi – do its job on Border Security and National Security.
The rest is execution of the plan by the Executive Branch.
Pelosi has been confused by distractions for quite some time, now. Her leadership has always been tenuous. Others are nipping at her heels from within her own Dem majority.