Posted on 04/04/2018 11:44:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sending troops to the border not only violates American law, it is the least politically savvy play the president could make.
Donald Trump is threatening to place soldiers on the U.S.-Mexico border to face off against a thousand-strong caravan of Central Americans who started in Honduras and are slowly winding their way through Mexico and plan to enter los Estados Unidos. And I can’t wait: Those refugees need Marines to protect them from ICE agents.
Our Coast Guard should have bulk tents, water, food and showers for everyone who shows up. And who better than Uncle Sam’s troops to offer a formal apology for directly and indirectly creating the conditions that have forced so many Central Americans to make the trek north over the past four decades in the first place.
So, unlike many of my fellow open-borderistas, I welcome news that Donald Trump wants to send in the troops. It’ll be far more cost-effective than a border wall, and it wouldn't hurt to call back our fighting men, women and transgender people from all of our imperialist adventures across the world and place them on la frontera.
Alas, my dream won’t happen. Brigades-on-the-border are just another saber rattle by a president who always seeks scapegoats among the most oppressed of people. He’s found a perfect candidate with this caravan, which he has already cast as evil-doers whom must be kept out, regardless of the Constitution, federal law or the federal budget.
If any of those in the caravan get sent back and die at the hands of the people they traveled so far to escape, the blood will be on Trump’s hands. Our troops deserve better than to be used as pawns in some reality-show reality by a power-hungry and attention-seeking tyrant.
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Keep in mind the chain migration has admitted 30 MILLION low skills, low wealth LEGAL immigrants during the last 25 years. The only qualification they need is to have a relative in US with green card.
Being legal, they ALL become eligible to receive citizenship in 3-5 years on green card and can vote LEGALLY!
And 90% vote democrat because they need welfare.
That is far bigger problem than (illegals+DACA) who can not vote legally.
“Smart” to lefties means “sneaky and treacherous”. The idea that someone should say what he thinks and act up front would never occur to the devious cowardly backbiters.
Gustavo, has Soros cut a check for you too?
He is.
This guy is a typical leftist fool who knows nothing. America’s kindness has been treated as a weakness. I have no more sympathy. Most countries below the American border are total failures and so are the people. We are not getting the best, brightest and eager to be American. Maybe it used to be that way but those days are done. Anyone who wants to step foot in America should bring with him or her, impeccable skills and worth and never should make the American citizen second class to the immigrant.
All America saw was an invasion force of 80+% military age men on the march openly declaring war on the US.
Trump played it perfectly, and now we are strengthening our boarder like never before.
When women of all ages see those images on TV, do they feel safer with Trump or safer with the bipartisan amnesty crowd?
Gustavo, you’re a frightened little man of no good character.
I swear to God, it wan't until I got to the fourth paragraph that I realized this wasn't satire. On what freaking planet does this air head reside?
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