Continuing to talk up the “invasion” of the US border by a caravan of migrants, President Trump said he is likely to continue to increase the number of military personnel deployed to the southern border. After Wednesday’s talk of 7,000 troops, Trump said he was willing to go up to 15,000.
Despite virtually all other accounts saying they are majority women and children, President Trump described the Caravan as “very tough fighters,” claiming they had viciously defeated the Mexican military along Mexico’s own border.
Trump did not say how many of the troops would be from the military and how many would be National Guard. As with the Pentagon before him, he is vague about what this massive military force will actually do.
With Trump heavily politicizing the immigration issue ahead of next week’s midterms, however, there is a lot of talk about him using military deployments as a political tool. Defense Secretary James Mattis denied that this was the case, saying that “we don’t do stunts in this department.”
Yet with assurances the Posse Comitatus Act will be complied with, there is a limit to what the military can do at the border. Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen said no decision had been made “yet” to have troops shooting migrants, though it was clear this was meant to indicate such a decision could come later.
Trump only knows how to use ‘stunts’,ie false flags as fearmongering.
If only they had considered wearing khaki golf pants and carrying wiki torches they could have been “fine people”.
Given the now reported fact that ISIL in Syria is resurging that seems to be the wrong border.
Also, does our president understand that his (valid) bragging about our low unemployment rate stimulates the formation of “caravans?”
Have you forgotten, Dieter, that Russia has a large force of both pilots and ground forces, as well as Special Forces, in Syria, and that Hezbollah has over 30,000 paramilitary forces in Syria as well?
POTUS Trump has enough troops at military bases all around the US, including highly trained elite paratroopers from Ft. Bragg (NC) and ground troops from Ft. Sill (OK) .. And, since there’s another caravan of mostly criminal elements (gangbangers, robbers, rapists and murderers) already at Mexico’s Southern border with Guatemala, 15,000 armed troops from Ft. Bragg and Ft. Sill may be necessary to keep both caravans out of the US.
Trump has another option as well, and that is, to issue/sign an Executive Order to completely shut down the US-Mexico border. This EO may be the better solution, since the invaders would be either stuck in Mexico, or the Mexican Authorities could force the invaders off their soil and ensure that they turn back and return to their home countries.
Good. That’s exactly where they need to be, inside our own borders. Now bring home the rest of those useless gits you have scattered all over the globe. Anyone has a problem with it? Good, now contact your local congress critter and have at it. You got a problem with that? Talk to the millions we’ve massacred who didn’t have that option.
Gotta side with Drump on this one. The US cannot allow thousands of people to cross the border illegally… simple as that. Do what’s necessary.
Not sure our military will know what to do so close to our actual county border. Defending America is “new territory” for these folks (and has been for over 70 years).