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.
I hear you, lets hope for a pleasant surprise.
We can hope this will be different.
skunk odor
We can only hope so.
The Homeland Security leader said the troops would be able to defend themselves if called upon to do so......
Surely that means they will have bullets for their rifles.
Why aren’t we adding to security in California?
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Somebody mentioned that the caravans are closest to Texas, so start there and move west.....
However, I heard an interview with DHS Sec who said something about having concentrated on critical areas in California (San Diego especially) in Wall building up to this point. California may already have some important shoring up accomplished, thereby lessening the urgency until the immediate threat south of Texas is handled.
I also recall Trump speaking some time ago about how he got an agreement from MoonBeam that US Nat Guard can indeed be placed on the California border, when they had been most uncooperative about that.
WINNING!
No traffic, no trucks, no trains, no planes, no cash transfers, no nuffin’!
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The USA’s economy has significant ties to Mexico. I don’t know
the dollar figure but it would impact our economy more than
a little.
According to a border patrol guy who was on Dobbs’ program, they wont’ be able to do all that much. The troops are certainly not going to fire on the invaders.
The troops only do support work for the BP.
I know, and the border patrol has admitted they can’t possibly detain all these invaders, so what is going to stop them at the border? Once they are in, they can claim asylum and get a hearing... a hearing that only 20% show up for. The rest are free as birds to find some place in the US to hide.
I agree, they won’t be firing on them but they’ll be armed and able to protect themselves if fired on.
Them being armed will pretty much ensure they won’t be fired on.
HOORAY President Donald J. Trump! Thank you, sir.
Done right, Trump could win a major front in the drug war while he’s at this.
Yes!
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“Expensive” — not 0.01% as expensive as letting all of those people into the US.
“Act in haste, repent in leisure.”
It took the goobermint 40 or 50 years to finally do something. They certainly cannot be accused of being too hasty.
Love those Warthogs. :^)
False. They will not be armed. They are support personel only
They are not armed. Read the story not the headline
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