Posted on 10/25/2018 9:42:17 AM PDT by Signalman
At least 800 US troops will be sent to the US-Mexico border in response to the caravan of thousands of migrants headed for America, according to a new report Thursday.
Defense Secretary James Mattis is expected to sign an order as early as Thursday authorizing the move, a source told the Associated Press.
The extra troops will be deployed to provide logistical support, including vehicles, tents and equipment, to Border Patrol agents.
About 2,000 National Guard troops are already assisting at the border under a previous Pentagon agreement.
The news comes after President Trump vowed in a Thursday morning tweet that he’s “bringing out the military for this national emergency.”
“They will be stopped!” the president wrote.
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If they keep walking, it is estimated it will take over 3 more weeks for them to arrive. Are you telling me we can't deploy our military (assuming we have the will) to secure our DOMESTIC border in less than 3 weeks?
I've never been in the military, but if we can't, then I have been greatly misled about our military readiness.
800 is a spit in the bucket against 14,000 envaders hell bent on FORCING themselves over our border!! I’m afraid it’s all optics now...and the military is going to put up tents too...WTH!! Remember how in the Lord of the rings movie the satanic hordes were climbing the deep helms walls? Well friends that visual will soon take place in real time on our very own soil!
Although, as far as I can tell, Mexico is allowing a foreign force to transit its territory in order to invade the U.S. How is that not an act of war? Mexico should set up camps well short of our border into which the caravan should be forced if it persists traveling north. Once the caravan understands that it’s heading for a camp in Chihuahua or Neovo Lauredo, and not the U.S., it will turn back.
Patience! Trump will exercise his ‘Night of the Long Knives’ after we win the midterms, and we will.
Just like the last time. Our government still refuses to do their duty to protect us from invasion.
I'm sick to my stomach.
horde
My prediction from living along the border ...they will split into three groups and find the weakest spot to rush through!! One reason you see them so neatly groomed because as soon as they cross they can easily blend with the rest of the population...THIS HORDE IS WELL VERSED by their coyotes and china!! Frankly folks, I don’t think we can stop them without firing a single shot or lining thousands of our military men to scare them! China is licking its chops hoping for outright distraction! The Chinese ARE FREAKIN EVIL..the Bible speaks about them in the latter days! Sorry but them the truth!!
Thank..I am a repeat offeder,too!
Sure there is. We just don't have the courage to use the means and methods at our disposal to stop this.
The illegal horde is coming, and no one is going to stop them from getting in.
Once they're in, millions more will follow, because they'll see we're too weak and cowardly to defend our country.
Within a few years, they'll all be voting, and MAGA will be nothing more than a bittersweet memory.
Is this more national guard? How do we know what unit was activated.
We can don’t mind the little cry babies on the thread. They like to degrade our military.
Go to your safe space little prick.
Since the administration has now factored in the direct assistance of another country (Venezuela) its response may be more aggressive than standing on the border with a pair of binoculars.
Yes, those Korean liquor store owners weren’t going to take any crap.
Only 800 troops? Against 10 or 14 thousand illegals?
You don’t have to force your way in if 1 by 1 they walk in and say they’re afraid....and allowed to stay.
I wish it wasn’t true but....
And it sounds like these troops are to facilitate the BP processing them faster.
Not just liquor stores. It was the entire Korean business district. Rioters knew better than to try destroying their businesses.
People, this is just the advance party to prepare for a massive influx of troops.
Piss off, azzhole.
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