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It was Pearl Harbor\u2013level language. \u201cAmerica\u2019s sovereignty is under attack,\u201d Donald Trump<\/strong> proclaimed on day one of his return to the White House. The president\u2019s cause for alarm? A \u201cNational emergency at the southern border,\u201d as the administration labeled it, referring to a frontier that, for all intents and purposes, was comparatively quiet.<\/p>\n The same day, he called on the commanders of the US armed forces to prepare for potential domestic<\/em> law enforcement. To that end, he asked that plans be drawn up to invoke, if necessary, a nearly 220-year-old \u201cinsurrection\u201d law that would give him authority to send federal troops to crack down on the purported southern \u201cinvasion.\u201d Later that week, the new secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth,<\/strong> said in his first remarks at the Pentagon<\/a> that the military was ready to shift its priorities from possible overseas deployment and engagement to \u201cthe defense of the territorial integrity of the United States of America\u201d in compliance with \u201cthe Constitution, the laws of our land and the directives of the commander.\u201d<\/p>\n