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Trump sending troops to Mexico border, but they won't have contact with immigrants
NBCNews.com ^ | 04/04/2018 | Julia Ainsley and Hallie Jackson

Posted on 04/04/2018 11:18:50 AM PDT by GIdget2004

The Trump administration began outlining a plan Wednesday to deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration, but will likely not allow the troops to have physical contact with immigrants, according to three administration officials.

The planning follows an announcement by President Donald Trump on Tuesday that came as a surprise to many of his advisers.

"Until we can have a wall and proper security, we are going to be guarding our border with the military," Trump said on Tuesday.

The plans were laid out in a meeting with senior level Department of Homeland Security officials as well as in a meeting with the White House's National Security Council on Wednesday, according to the three officials. The exact number of troops and how long they will be deployed to the border will be solidified in the coming days, the officials said.

The National Guard troops will not have physical contact with immigrants nor will they be responsible for processing them at the border, one of the officials said. Instead, they will be giving U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents more visibility by providing surveillance by air and through camera monitoring of the border.

Then-President George W. Bush issued a similar policy in 2006, called Operation Jump Start, though a White House official said it is not yet clear how closely the new deployment will mimic that plan.

President Barack Obama also deployed National Guard troops to the border in 2010 to help provide surveillance by air.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bordermilitary; caravan; nationalsecurity; trumpcaravan
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To: Lurkinanloomin
In real socialism the democrats will take away your house , guns,money any asests as they did in South Africa and Venezuela

Look i know there is a uniparty opposing Trump . but democrats are much worse :

Republican politicians at the state level are much better that is obvious when you compare California to Texas. See as Ann Coulter said the democrats are doing to the whole country what they did to california. California used to be run by Republicans and things were much better. then democrats let in millions of mexicans and that's the club the democrats used to take complete power and now you have the result california is a commie loony bin.

I think this kind of thinking prevalent among conservatives that there is no difference between a d pol and an r pol is dangerous because many conservatives stay home then democrats win then you have cali run by Reagan turned to cali now , then the USA as venezuela and then south Africa which is the democrat goal

even at the national level republicans have not passed amnesty for all illegals even when they had the majority for decades , democrats will ,

democrats will win the house this year if you all stay home then they will impeach trump(another difference in that Republicans won't impeach trump). After they get rid of trump then in 2020 kamala harris and democrats will take away our gun rights, right to own houses,property ,money , and freedom . count on it. I actually personally met a white Couple from South Africa, nice people who owned a farm . I told them they were going to do this and now it's coming true in South Africa they are takeing away their homes.

even at the national level there is a big difference ,

there are many more differences but i’m just highlighting 1. amnesty, 2. impeaching trump, 3. repealing 2nd amendment

61 posted on 04/05/2018 9:10:13 AM PDT by rurgan (The Federal reserve r leftists raising rates to hurt Trump.Fed kept rates at 0 for all of obama yrs)
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