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.
Will they also have bullets? I remember back in the day they had weapons but no bullets.
So, you think Trump would give them weapons with no bullets. To face drug cartel-weaponized invaders. Right...
Because the polling went south, literally.
To all those who said that sending just 800 troops was a week response; I told all of you that is was just the advance party to prepare to receive many thousands of other soldiers.
My guess is that Trump, who has the Constitutional Authority, will declare the Mexican border closed to all but northbound with US Passports and southbound with travel visas to Mexico and beyond.No traffic, no trucks, no trains, no planes, no cash transfers, no nuffin’!
Wow. All Trump has to do is to cover extended military border operations 'indefinitely' with an EO, and start building the wall with the military.
I think that’s the perfect solution
PING
Check out links at # 36.
Thanks WildHighlander57, good research.
To vote for Beto no doubt
Disarm them, that's cruel to chop their limbs off and send them back. I say off with their heads and be done with them. Heck, we can't even paintball them with the democrats interfering on their behalf.
Better to chip them like animal control does to feral animals. With scanners in our nation we can more easily find them and incarcerate or deport them. Chip them now!
Do you realize how many wood chippers that's gonna take?
Sounds tough. But I have been disappointed before. Hopefully for the last time.
They will but they are starting at Texas (the nearest pint for the caravan) and then moving west to California ( the fairest point)
The M-388 could be launched from either of two launchers known as the Davy Crockett Weapon System(s): the 4.7-inch (120 mm) M28, with a range of about 1.25 mi (2 km), or the 6.1-in (155 mm) M29, with a range of 2.5 mi (4 km.)
So using even the shorter range launch system, and the greater "probably fatal dose" radius, the shooter would be 5 times that distance away. Hopefully any troops on the FLOT would be far enough and dug in.
oooh - CBs can build berms pretty quickly - I’d love to see the enviro weenies all up in arms as our troops build a massive set of fortifications ...
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>> “Good to know they are armed.” <<
When Clinton sent troops to the Carribean and Mogadishu they had rifles without magazines.
That's not what I meant! But... the idea is an entertaining idea...
I have a wood chipper I can donate to the cause, but it will only work on small limbs. I'll donate a Sawzall and axe as well.
Thanks for the ping! GREAT THREAD - AND EVEN BETTER NEWS!
show of force, I guess
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