After his final statement, a hood was placed over his head.

The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to use active-duty military personnel to perform law-enforcement duties inside the US.US media report that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem, who were tasked with the assessment, will announce their recommendations later this week.

Since returning to office, Trump has made cracking down on illegal immigration a central focus, and border crossings have reached a quarter-century low. But the statute could further expand the president's powers.Here's what to know.The 19th-century law would allow the use of active-duty military personnel to perform law-enforcement duties within the US.

This includes the National Guard - a branch of the US armed forces traditionally reserved for domestic emergencies and disasters.US presidents can invoke the law if they determine that "unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion" against the government make it "impracticable to enforce" US law "by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings".

Once invoked, troops could be tasked with a range of duties, from quelling civil unrest and enforcing court orders to arresting and detaining migrants.

Because the Insurrection Act was written in broad terms, with little specific guidance on how and when the powers can be used, it gives presidents wide latitude in deciding when to mobilise military personnel for domestic operations.He said: "The nuances with the new legislation is some of the requirements around things like reasonable adjustments, whether somebody has a disability or not as defined within the legislation, some of those things are quite complicated and will be different from individual to individual.

"I don't think it's possible for a business to be completely ready but we would expect organisations to be contacting us."Private car parks in the UK are to offer motorists a 10-minute "grace period" before they impose a charge for overstaying.

The measure was announced as part of a new code of practice companies have pledged to implement in the autumn.Industry trade bodies say the code will also introduce a fairer appeals system and maintain an existing cap on charges.