President Donald Trump arguably redefined the pre-presidency by hitting the ground running before he officially returned to the Oval Office as president on Monday. As reported by CNN — you gotta love it — on Wednesday, thousands of additional active duty U.S. troops have been ordered to the Southern Border, just two days after Trump ordered the Pentagon to increase its active presence there. 

According to officials familiar with the situation, there are already roughly 2,200 active duty forces at the border as part of Joint Task Force-North, U.S. Northern Command’s border mission to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s work by "performing mostly logistical and bureaucratic tasks like data entry, detection and monitoring, and vehicle maintenance."

Trump is fully aware that bureaucratic tasks like data entry and vehicle maintenance isn't the problem.

Yet, while it's not yet clear which specific troops will deployed to the border this week, they will reportedly be assisting in command-and-control centers, and providing more intelligence specialists to assess threats and illegal immigration flows, according to sources familiar with the planning. 

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More active duty troops are expected to be deployed to the border in the coming weeks and months, one of the officials said, with this first wave laying the groundwork for a larger military footprint.

It is not clear whether the troops will be armed. But none of the active duty troops are authorized to perform any kind of law enforcement role, like perform arrests or seize drugs, or engage with migrants other than to help transport them to and around different migrant facilities.

A law that dates back more than a century known as “posse comitatus” bars active-duty US troops from domestic law enforcement without authorization. Other laws and regulations have further clarified that troops can’t participate in activities such as making arrests and conducting searches, according to a Congressional Research Service analysis.

On Monday, Trump declared a national border emergency and ordered forces "repel forms of invasion"  along the border, including illegal migration and drug trafficking.

In his relevant executive orders, published on Monday, Trump appeared to suggest a strong crackdown was imminent. He also declared in his inaugural speech:

I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will be immediately halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of illegal aliens back to the places from which they came.

Trump said in one of his orders that he will decide within 90 days whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1792, which authorizes presidents to deploy military forces inside the country under certain circumstances. The statute activates congressional authority under the Constitution to “provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.”

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Meanwhile, the Trump Express continues to hurtle down the tracks, as the Biden Clown Car sputters off into irrelevance.