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Deployment of United States Armed Forces to Haiti
The President has authority to order the deployment of the armed forces to Haiti in order to protect American citizens there. The deployment is consistent with the War Powers Resolution. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/18876/download.
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