As was expected according to myriad reports Thursday, on Friday the Pentagon confirmed that around 800 troops will be deployed to the border with Mexico. This will include both active duty troops and National Guard troops, and will join 2,100 National Guard troops already there.
Exactly what the troops will be going isn’t entirely clear. Some reports say they are strictly to be setting up barricades and temporary barriers to prevent Latin Americans from getting into the country. The Pentagon also mentioned helicopters would be sent for the sake of moving personnel.
But the 2,100 National Guard troops already there have had their mission panned as mostly useless to border security, and adding another 800 to that mission doesn’t seem likely to change much.
Pentagon officials downplayed the seriousness of the mission, saying they don’t intend the troops to engage in direct border enforcement. Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen, however, insisted that the US has “a sovereign right” to use the troops to capture immigrants, adding “we do not have any intention right now to shoot at people.”
President Trump has been increasingly desperate in calling for crackdowns on the border, terming it a “national emergency.” It’s not clear, however, that the public would react positively to a kinetic military operation along the US border involving casualties among civilian migrants, despite dubious claims from Vice President Pence that some are liable to be from the Middle East.
$??? What a waste to stem blowback
Stop the illegal Dem voters. Get in line like everyone else.
Maybe we will do like the IDF does every week on the border with Gaza. You know, self defense.
This is troublesome. This is exactly how the invasion of Europe started. It started by organized groups being transpkrted to borders, being simply fkrwarded by busses and trains accross many borders, until they reacbed Germany, Sweden, etc. Many borders were crossed between Grece and Austria then Germany, and many crissed borders into Italy, Switzrland, Germany, Belgium, Negherlands, France, Denmark, Nirway a d Sweden. Nobody stopped trains or busses, and all refugees/migrants had instructions provided by Soros funded humanitarian groups on what to say to claim their refugee rights. The same groups coordinated foiod and stop overs in tempirary shelters throughout Balkans. Hundreds of thousands were shipped by full trains and busses. But at some point these exoress caravans stopped — but thousands ck tinyed comming on their own, paying their own transit, but thdn bding asked to fill out papers in the countries of transit. This allowed Germany to enforce agreements on readmission Germany has with many countries requiring transit countries to take back thise that filmed papers upin entering their country. That is when tragedjes started, people walking along rail lines, dyjng in trucks, tunning accross fields and forrezts. When countries like Hungary put up wire fences. Merkel invited people, and they came from far flung places, but then Hungary and others that were transit were asked go keep them, after Germany decided who to keep.
The problem js, ut us important to know NOW who is organizing the mass migration, who is paying for the food, transpirt, shelfer, even phone charging statikns. Whi is providing jnstructions. There are plenty of loor leople created by IMF “structhral adjustment” destructiion of countries bydgefs and institutions. They are the tools in glibalists clutches, and unless dealt with transparently — deal with those who are fhnding and staffing mass migratiom — it will all boil down like in Europe with horrible tragedjes and hearth breaking stories that sill make border defending utterly cruel and inhumane. But instead, I hear silly stories about devious Venezuela doing it! May God belp us.
Wow, Bianca, truly whacked. Refugees are created the same way they always have, fleeing from war and oppression. You do realize the source of the refugees in Europe? Syria, Libya, Iraq, you really believe they are moving prompted by Soros ? When refugees are moving, liberal nations, understanding the humanitarian problem, provide assistance for them to survive, and arrive to a haven. If, and I emphasize if because I dont know where the money comes from, Soros donates money to this end, good for him, it makes him a far better steward of capital than your run of the mill greedy billionaire like you find on the right.
Please spare me. I do know how refugees are created. And additionally, IMF has created more refugees then wars, devastating many countries in Africa, Asia and South America. With destroyed institutions, economic turmoil, debts and asset appropriations, and the wholesale destruction of small, family farming and fishery — millionsare made destitute. Most of the migrants that came to Europe are economic migrants.
Please understand that the neoliberal economy practice since cold war us devastating weaker stares and societies. When you have a lemin, make lemonade, or do not get any crisis go to waste. A FULL YEAR BEFORE MIGRANT CRISIS ENGULFED EUROPE I noticed that the leading proponents of corporate globalism started out of nowhere ADVOCATING IMMUGRATION TO EUROPE IN THE GROUNDS OF AGING POPULATION THAT IS STAGNATING EUROPEAN ECONOMIES. What rubbish! European Union has a number if countries with under thirty unemployment at 30%! Why not liberaluze labor market to allow young from Spain, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Criatia, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania or Baltic states — to fill any demigraphic deficit in European countries like Germany. Why having to import them from sub-Saharan Africa? Please!
I am not singling out Soros as if there are nit plenty of such social engineers on all sides. But — no discussion here — Soros NGOs were prominent leaders of advocating and paying for the massive transportation costs, as well as humanitarian costs if emergency supplies, medical and other assistance. The same groups are loud advocates within EU to ELIMINATE internal borders, and to have EU border police guard EXTERNAL borders of EU. And its mandate is to comply with UN rukes on refugees which state that a refugee has a right to decide which country he/she wants to go, and other countries are required to assist them reaching their goal. FRONTEX agency has already starting assuming patroks in Mediterranean— with the political repercussions for the country. Brexit was to great extent driven by the rejection of the idea that other interests will drive how much population can be crammed onto the small island. And the thunderous insistence in the virtues of diversity — even though it is defended when innapropriate ir harmful. What are the goals if diversity? Ket us say in Germany until ethnic Germans are less then 50%? Or less then 25%, or 5%? The virtues of such sudden unflux of traumatized, angry and mostly young people have to be viewed with reality of their oredicament. It dies not help that vast majority of them see the collective West as responsible for wars as well as financial and material looting if their countries. In our era, gone is the gentile style colonialusm, or brutality of slavery. Nowdays, new colonialism takes what it wants, and does not build anything. Today slaves are not shipped, they are kept in their countries to work for nothing, and nobody cares if they live or die.
Fhis is the climate in which mass migration to Europe occured and is still occuring. All it brought us social turmoil, efforts by authorities to cover up the extent of social consequences, especially crime. Now Europe is busy with their iwn anguish to be a factor anywhere. Macron and Merkel can strut around, but are not respected at home. Glibalist media and Soris like creatures still scream of the need for humanity — while nobody is listening. If this additional layer of problem is heading our way —,let us at least understand. QUI BONO.
The economic exploitation you describe has been occurring since the invention of agriculture, colonialism and labor pressures do not explain the euro refugee crisis peaking in 2015, resulting in the ethnic nationalist political blowback there. As of 2016, 66,ooo,ooo people were forcibly displaced worldwide, of these. 23,ooo,ooo were asyum seekers. Of the millions of arabs crossing the Med, or going overland to Europe the leading sources in order….Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine….Cause and effect…..The “success” in stemming this tide is morally bankrupt, in effect, set the barn on fire, shoot the animals escaping the flames. Yes, the same political forces decrying the influx of refugees, support the actions which create them, disgusting examples of humanity. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them. We see the same situation with the current caravan “invasion” thru Mexico. The US supports despotic regimes in central America, then calls the refugees from these regimes “invaders” or criminals.
Any chance they are bringing their guns??