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Posted on 04/04/2018 8:50:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The United States has 14,000 troops in Afghanistan, 39,000 in Japan, 34,805 in Germany, 23,000 in South Korea, and around 5,200 in Iraq. Our military protects the borders of countless nations.
Except our own.
In 1919, we had 18,500 soldiers on the border. “Twice a day every foot of the border line is patrolled by cavalrymen and infantrymen,” the New York Times noted.
A hundred years later, President Trump’s proposal to use the military to secure the border is controversial even though Marines fighting drug cartels have come under fire from drug smugglers.
El Salvadoran migration has inflicted 207 murderers on this country. The migrant caravan threatening to invade this country includes migrants from El Salvador. Some of them may be MS-13 members. The Pueblo Sin Fronteras caravan of 1,000 migrants is the product of an alliance between international leftists and migrant invaders. Their goal is the invasion, colonization and occupation of America.
And the only ones defending us against them are the members of an outnumbered border patrol, threatened by both drug cartels on the other side of the border and sanctuary states in this country.
That’s why President Trump is mobilizing the troops to do the job that the Democrats won’t do.
“Until we can have a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military,” President Trump said.
Some of the same politicians who oppose withdrawing our forces from Syria also oppose sending troops to secure the border. But which should be a higher priority?
If an enemy army were invading South Korea, our soldiers would swing into action. But the United States has already been invaded. The invaders have occupied and seized control of state governments, including California, while declaring that their rebel cities will defy Federal immigration law.
They mean to do the same thing to the entire country. Their DREAM is the end of America.
From fighting Indian raids to the banditry of Pancho Villa, the military has always secured the border against invasions out of Mexico. The military was our defense against the "Plan of San Diego" terror waged by Mexican racists who vowed to seize control of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Colorado, liberate the “proletariat” and execute all "North American over sixteen years of age.”
And yes, the military can even “build the wall”.
Joint Task Force North's military engineers have already built 62 miles of road, and border fence construction. There’s no reason why its anti-terrorist and drug smuggling prevention mission can’t be expanded to include securing the border with a wall and other impassable physical barriers.
Presidents have taken action against urgent illegal migrant threats before.
"Let me just tell you that Dwight Eisenhower, good president, great president, people liked him. ‘I like Ike,’ right?" Donald Trump said during a primary debate. "Moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country, moved them just beyond the border. They came back. Moved them again beyond the border, they came back. Didn’t like it. Moved them way south. They never came back."
Operation Wetback was fantastically effective in clearing illegal aliens out of California and Texas.
Under General Joseph Swing, who had done everything from hunting Pancho Villa in Mexico to going up against the Japanese in the Philippines, the INS caught, detained and deported over a million illegals. Wetback had been based on the Operation Cloud Burst plan, which would have used a presidential proclamation to authorize the use of military force if the Army had not been tied down in Korea.
Some commentators have claimed that the Posse Comitatus Act would prevent the use of any military forces other than the National Guard on the border. But securing the border against foreign invaders (as opposed to domestic law enforcement directed against citizens) has always been a military matter.
Furthermore the military is already authorized to operate in areas where drug smuggling occurs.
Stopping illegal migrants does not subject “citizens to the exercise of military power”. If the military does not supplement ICE, but directly secures the border, there would be no Posse Comitatus issue.
But the law also permits the use of military force to “prevent disruption of Federal functions”.
Sanctuary states like California have disrupted the functioning of immigration law and have even passed laws prohibiting citizens from cooperating with Federal authorities. 10 U.S.C. 332, “authorizes use of the militia and Armed Forces to enforce Federal law when unlawful obstructions or rebellion against the authority of the United States renders ordinary enforcement means unworkable.”
The unlawful obstruction of immigration law by sanctuary cities and states has made ordinary enforcement unworkable. The rebellion against the authority of the United States must end.
10 U.S.C. 333 further, “authorizes use of the militia and Armed Forces when domestic violence or conspiracy hinders execution of State or Federal law, and a State cannot or will not protect the constitutional rights of the citizens.” That’s the current state of affairs in California and elsewhere.
Californians are being robbed, raped and murdered by illegal aliens because their government not only refuses to protect their constitutional rights, but criminalizes cooperation with immigration authorities.
Deploying the National Guard would be a helpful start. But hopefully it won’t end there.
Any forces deployed to the border must have the authority to stop anyone illegally crossing the border. Either that or they must be part of a wall construction effort. Obama and Bush had already deployed the National Guard as a show of force. But a show of force by forces unable to do anything is a farce.
America can’t afford any more border security theater when we need actual border security results.
Our cities are being overwhelmed, our borders are unreal lines on a map and the terror is coming home. Every day we are losing more of our country. The San Diego Plan envisioned the invasion and capture of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Colorado. Over a century later, it’s becoming a reality.
The military can be used to secure the border as it has been since its existence. All we need is the will.
President Trump is right to call for using the military to guard the border. He’s right to contemplate using the military to build the wall. It’s been done before and it can be done again. The residents of terrorized border towns, the angel dads and moms of Americans murdered by illegal aliens, the sheriffs and other law enforcement officers, and the struggling ICE agents are waiting for military backup.
Our soldiers have been deployed to defend many countries. Now it’s time for them to defend our own.
Useless. Guard troops in the US are issued no ammunition and are under orders to do nothing except patrol with empty weapons and keep clear of confrontation. This will help, how? Every libtard with a camera will be there to slander them and demand prosecution.
“patrolled by cavalrymen”!
Man o man I’d love to see some of our military guys riding horses patrolling the border.
Tell me that couldn’t be a bit imposing?
Run the wetbacks over using horse power?
I believe there are some militias already
formed, in Texas. But they are mainly
“eyes only” with communications to Border
Patrol agents.
Almost all ranchers along the border
are armed. But I remember a case where
a rancher held some illegals at gunpoint
until Border Patrol authorities arrived.
The rancher was sued and lost.(Arizona
in 2011), and was fined $87,000, as the
illegals were not armed, and posed no
threat. I for one, did not agree with
the courts decision, but it was the 9th
Circuit in California....
Sad to say, you are right. Bring the troops home and put them on our borders.
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The Military Can Secure The Border and Build The Wall;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The Military Can Secure The Border and Build The Wall;
Useless. Guard troops in the US are issued no ammunition and are under orders to do nothing except patrol with empty weapons and keep clear of confrontation. This will help, how?
I thought that was just during W’s reign....the ‘no ammunition/no confrontation’.
Is this still in force? Do you have a link?
Thanks.
Mexico's been an enemy more than they've been a friend - but that doesn't mean democrats won't stand with THEM - against American citizens.
I can’t argue with that.
Heck, the democrats are nothing but enemy all day long.
And the US Constitution *mandates* that the federal government protect the states against invasion.
It’s the only mandate in the entire document.
The President is on completely solid legal grounds.
PDJT is right to do this military deployment along the border. But no news outlet is writing the truth.
Here is the truth:
By International Law standards, Mexico is perpetrating an Act of War on the USA. This outlines what is at stake here:
“The 1500 man Honduran “caravan” on its way to the Southern border is more than it seems. Of course they will be denied entry. But this is intended by the US liberal fascist left to be the beginning os a refugee camp on the Mexican side of the border. Once it becomes a UN approved refugee camp, it will be funded by the Muslim countries who control much of the UN’s “refugee” program.
“It will then be only a short time before the men of that camp will be armed by Iran, North Korea and other radical Muslim States. One can see the Arab Spring hand of our magic negro community organizers at work. Mexico will sit back and allow it all, what have they got to lose? The entire Northern tier of Mexican states is controlled by Mexican gangs.
“PDJT has only a short time to act, but he has a weaponized FBI, DOJ and CIA. Who knows what will happen now? Our country cannot permit the establishment of a UN approved refugee camp on our Southern border. PDJT has either a military option or he must grant asylum to the 1500 and process them immediately. Both are only short term stop gaps.
“If PJDT can draw the attention of America to the incredible risk to our national security as an election issue, he may actually see the November election bring full Republican control of the Senate and the House. But that has its own uncertainty.
“These factors will begin to play out over the next few months. Congress will rue the day they ever refused to implement some kind of solution to settle the DACA issue. Now the rage of the American people is about to be felt at the polls. One can only hope that it will come against the Democrat party and its deep state cabal , a criminal syndicate of liberal fascists who seek to destroy America. This is why President Trump must fire both Mueller and Rosenstein, replace Sessions and clean these liberal fascist mafia from the higher echelons of the federal government.
“The invasion of our country is about to begin.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3644194/posts?page=139#139
We spend billions on a military to defend the borders of countries around the world... we don't need to have bake sales and do 'volunteer shifts' to protect our borders with private citizens. We have a military to protect us... let them DO THAT JOB.
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