Posted on 10/25/2018 10:44:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump said he plans on “bringing out the military” to stop the thousands of people in the migrant caravan headed to our border.
Another report stated that Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis “is expected to sign deployment orders as soon as Thursday that could send 800 or more troops to the border.”
Trump has repeated threats to send the military to the border to defend it against the mostly Honduran migrants who continue to march to the border. The number of people within the caravan has fluctuated, but USA Today reported that the Mexican government has determined the number has fallen to 4,500 as people have either stopped or asked for asylum in Mexico:
Mexico’s Interior Ministry said immigration officials have received 1,699 asylum claims, while 495 Hondurans have asked to be returned to their country of origin. The Central American migrants come mostly from Honduras but also includes those from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. The status of about 500 other migrants is unclear. United Nation officials estimated Monday there were more than 7,200 migrants in the caravan.
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A Combat engineer company can thwart the movement of a couple of enemy divisions in the matter of a day or two.
I believe large deployments happen when I see them or hear about them. “Those of us who know about large deployments...” I was in the deployment to Desert Shield and Storm as a field grade officer so don’t preach to me about what “some of us know.”
That's scary. There is also a difference between deploying and planning a deployment.
Yes there is a difference. And you show your ass every time you comment here so we are done.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/13/watch-caravan-migrants-arrive-at-southern-border-scale-fence/ So where are these thousands of soldiers and Marines? Got any new ideas?
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