Posted on 10/29/2018 3:23:49 PM PDT by jazusamo
Videos at link.
Full title: BREAKING: Thousands of Armed U.S. Troops Will Be Deployed to the Border by Friday, Here's What They'll Be Doing
Officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense announced Monday 5200 additional active duty U.S. troops will be deployed to the southern border with Mexico by Friday. Eight-hundred soldiers are on their way to Texas now.
“They are in fact deploying with weapons," U.S. Northern Command Air Force General Terrence O'Shaughnessy said during a press conference. "I think the President has made it clear that border security is national security."
Troops are being sent to bolster border security in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas as at least three caravans from Central America make their way through Mexico and toward the United States. The caravans pose a special threat due to their size, which range from 3,000 people to more than 10,000. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, at least one caravan near Guatamala, Mexico has used violent tactics to breach a number of international borders.
"Due to the large size of the potential caravans that may arrive at the border, the Department of Homeland Security has further requested the support of the Department of Defense," McAleenan said. "We will not allow a large group to enter the U.S. unlawfully."
Troops will be used to build fencing, provide medical units, harden points of entry and address key gaps in points of entry. Air and ground transportation will be provided to move agents and equipment. This support requires military planning teams and heavy equipment, including Black Hawk helicopters and fixed wing aircraft.
One-thousand additional Customs and Border Protection officers and agents are also being deployed to handle operations.
Wouldn’t they be just PERFECT for interdiction on the border?
It would only take a few daily BBRRAPPPSSSS into the desert a mile inside Mexico would keep keep people away from the border.
General O’Shaughnessy says they’ll deploy w/weapons, I consider that armed.
“They are in fact deploying with weapons," U.S. Northern Command Air Force General Terrence O'Shaughnessy said during a press conference. "I think the President has made it clear that border security is national security."
Troops are being sent to bolster border security in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas as at least three caravans from Central America make their way through Mexico and toward the United States. The caravans pose a special threat due to their size, which range from 3,000 people to more than 10,000. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, at least one caravan near Guatamala, Mexico has used violent tactics to breach a number of international borders."
from another article... just posted... they are armed.
No. I expect some Obama holdover somewhere to try it though.
defend themselves??
not stop them at the border?
Posse Comitatus prohibits that
Again. Oosse commitatus would prohibit that
does NOT apply to every group of people... only american citizens are protected by that...
any deployment of any kind could be ordered lawfully by the president, including any action repelling an invasion or even cross border preemptive strikes.
He IS required by the Constitution to repel an invasion... This is an article -— provision of the constitution which clearly supercedes any posse commitatus regulations that have been written of or by congress only to protect US Citizens from being attacked by the US military. THAT is illegal.
It has been ordered and it will be done.
We’ll see, President Trump and DHS Secretary Nielsen have both emphatically stated the caravans won’t be allowed in.
Trump has stated this is a national security issue and the President is responsible for national security.
Trump and his advisers are working on EOs as we speak.
I believe Posse Comitatus states our military can’t be used for civilian disturbance, would that include a national emergency due to invasion?
Time will tell.
My hope is they have some of those big sound machines that tend to disperse crowds
I agree it is an invasion. Trump has called it as such.
Put money on the ACLU or some other group taking armed soldier deployment to court. That’s what the Left does
Time will tell
“I guarantee they will all miraculously appear at our border right at midterm election week”
Twitter | James Woods
Posted on 10/22/2018 11:16:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3698826/posts
Clarence Thomas Already indicated that The Supremes will get involved if activist judges Passmore injunctions stopping what the executive branch is doing.
I just hope they can do it really quick, and not have to wait for the lawsuit to get to them. I don’t know if there is any means for that to happen. It should have been happening already, if so.
The Posse Comitatus Act is ONLY against our military being used against OUR legal citizens!
You should really stop posting about things you neither know about nor understand!
“The troops are certainly not going to fire on the invaders.”
And I don’t get what good they would do. Then this means the Invaders get to come in, disappear in the system, and live here and mooch off us the rest of their lives.
“We’ll see, President Trump and DHS Secretary Nielsen have both emphatically stated the caravans won’t be allowed in.”
If the troops are not allowed to fire on the Invaders, then Trump must have some magic up his sleeve to stop the Caravans from coming in. I don’t see how it can happen since there is no wall.
Caravans, what lib came up with that word, it’s a mob, a third world criminal mob.
In fact, Article 4, Section 4's “protect from invasion” make the use of federal troops at the border the US government's constitutional duty.
Love your Cartman meme.
That pose was not an accident. #heyladies
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