In what is being described as a major surge, the Trump Administration is planning to add on to 800 troops sent to the border last week with another 5,200 troops, who are all expected to reach the Mexican border within the week.
As before, these troops are expected to join a force of 2,000 National Guard members already providing nebulous “support” for border enforcement, with the expectation of a substantial migrant caravan arriving at some point in the near future.
President Trump has termed the caravan of Central Americans a “national emergency.” Today, he further described them as an “invasion of our Country” and “very bad people.” The new deployment will include even more helicopters and planes to get forces to remote areas.
Exactly what they will be doing isn’t entirely clear. Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen says that there has been no decision “yet” to have the troops just shoot any immigrants who try to cross the border. She has, however, said the US has every right to do so.
The Pentagon is being particularly vague about what they’re doing, insisting it will be legal under the Posse Comitatus Act, but mostly referring questions to previous Twitter statements by the president.
I’m sure once weed is legal in Mexico a new level of economic dynamism and peace will make central Americans to stay there. In another subject there’s a HUGE article at the intercept https://theintercept.com/2018/10/27/trump-inf-treaty-cuban-missile-crisis-nuclear-war/
Why isn’t it headline news here?
Who cares about legality? it does not apply to the USA internationally, they insist, so why bother inside the Homeland? All this of course takes people’s minds off the USA making the world even less safe by leaving a key international arms control treaty.
They are not refuges, they are attempting to break our laws by illegally entering our nation.
Right… After the US has done so much damage to South American countries since WWII, it is they who are about to break our laws….
The wicked White Male meme again?
Kinda what your relatives did to the indians you mean>
And that’s why you need to donate your home, car, etc., to Indians. In the meantime, most people live in the present.
Correction: “their continent, too.” Indigenous people here have been moving around for thousands of years, Schmizer. Probably like your folks did as well, I’m thinking.
Incorrect. We don’t live in Alexander the Great,Genghis Khan or the Roman Empire any longer. Now we have Nation States not Empires where all are free to move. That was Crooked Hillary’s line during the campaign from you
Let’s clone Neanderthals and give them Europe back?
Actually it is their right to ask for asylum, per US law
Actually it is, in the first country they go into – in this case Mexico.
Per US law the illegals here are supposed to go their hearings when called, but only a very small percentage do.
Refugees: We make ’em but we won’t take ’em.
As of right now thats 3 soldiers for every refugee. $ well spent trump.
We haven’t had a defensive military since WWII. What are these GIs going to do, shoot the refugees down and call in air strikes? This is so outside their normal operational play book.
Probably won’t need the airstrikes unless the refugees have sling shots of course.
Yes, this is turning out to be like Gaza, only much bigger.
No it isn’t – The illegals trying to storm our borders never lived here. Maybe we should lay a RR track and move right on up to Canada or the Yukon.
Killing brown people is killing brown people. Six-thousand men armed to the teeth to keep starving peasants from crossing an invisible line hardly seems like defense to me.
Finally, using our military to actually DEFEND AMERICA for a change. Nice to see.
Lets see who is bad at math? The dreaded caravan is 1500 miles away. How fast do they move? 10mi a day ? Well call it 15 so the avalanche hits in 100 days. I suspect the current hysteria has more to do with the first Tuesday of November than any actual facts. Where did those guys get smallpox anyway?