You're the one making claims that the only possible response to this problem was to send armed military personnel to a US city to arrest some people hanging outside a Home Depot or whatever. Please back up your assertion with evidence.

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that enforcing immigration law entails apprehending and deporting illegal aliens. The troops weren't deployed until after the rioting started.

> I'm saying that enforcing immigration law entails apprehending and deporting illegal aliens.

Okay, fine. You still haven't provide any evidence to back this up.

8 USC § 1227 covers deportation: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1...

And 1226 covers apprehension and detention: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=prelim&...