Posted on 10/29/2018 3:23:49 PM PDT by jazusamo
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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.
Next time please downsize the pic(s) for those on slower connections. TIA.
Since there is MORE THAN ONE caravan, who knows what the Fox reporter is seeing? Of think that they re seeing???
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The first troops in were deliberately not provided magazines.
I will settle for an iron wall of Humvees and Soldiers manning with LOADED weapons with ROEs that allow them to use them if they set foot on American soil or the middle of the river.
Non-military people are stupid about military operations. They should just STFU and listen to the professionals.
Sounds like a remarkably good strategy, especially seizing the remittances—but at that point all the Mexican government could do is try to halt any FURTHER migration beginning within their borders. You mention the timeline of “a week before the invaders arrive” and thinking about it I do see how the actual migration could be perfectly monitored through a variety of GPS type surveillance, so that we’d know EXACTLY where they are and in what numbers, and who is bringing up the rear, so you do have a good point there also.
Rights?....we don’t need no stinking rights
We don’t need them. But we’ll take them, senor.
Why do we need to PROCESS anyone?
Let MEXICO do the 'processing'!!
...is to a shopping mall as Fargo is to a tiny boutique.
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