US soldiers now stationed inside migrant detention camp as ‘prison guards’

Soldiers are monitoring migrants at a detention centre in Texas, in what one congressman fears comes close to a breach of the Posse Comitatus Act, a cornerstone of US society.Under the 1878 federal law members of the army are prohibited from acting as a domestic police force.Active-duty troops are only allowed to help police officers under limited exceptions to the act, including when expressly authorised by law or by the constitution.But troops are currently keeping watch over detainees at a fa