Trump to sign proclamation to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border

Washington Post ^ | April 4, 2018 | Seung Min Kim

[Innovative]

President Trump will sign a proclamation Wednesday sending National Guard troops to the southern border to ramp up security efforts, the administration announced, after days of warnings from the president about the dangers of illegal immigration.

The National Guard will be sent to assist Border Patrol agents until legislation is passed to close “loopholes” that the Trump administration says allow certain undocumented immigrants to stay in the country and the “catch-and-release” policy is ended, according to a person familiar with the expected White House proposal. Catch and release is a practice of releasing undocumented immigrants from custody while they await their hearings.

[klsparrow]

Now we find out from DHS Nielsen that the troops on the border won’t be armed. That was a lot of bluster from Trump that amounted to nothing. Deploying the military to the border what a bunch of crap? Just round up people off the street and pay them to stand around. I guess they think that people in camo will scare them away.

[klsparrow]

an unarmed welcoming committee says DHS Nielsen. What a waste of time and money

[deport]

Now we find out from DHS Nielsen that the troops on the
border won’t be armed.

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Hasn’t that been SOP over the past few years where some troops
have been on the border to assist the Border Patrol. They do
more mundane things like paper shuffling, housing duties, etc
which frees BP agents to do more actual field work which is
their speciality.