Posted on 03/12/2019 7:22:06 PM PDT by caww
National Guard troops helped with the arrest of 23,034 illegal immigrants and the seizure of more than 35,000 pounds of drugs in the roughly six months they were deployed to the border in fiscal 2018, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The more than 23,000 people arrested were "deportable" noncitizens, DHS said. The operation, dubbed "Guardian Support," also led federal law enforcement to more than 6,100 people who were later turned back, the data said.
Because guardsmen are military personnel and not law enforcement officers, they cannot apprehend people. CBP officers and Border Patrol agents apprehended thousands as a result of guardsmen who were monitoring cameras, flying helicopters, and piloting planes.
The troops monitoring remote video surveillance systems have then been able to report sightings to a greater field of agents, and thus the number of apprehensions has increased, officials have said.
President Trump authorized the deployment last April following the emergence of a caravan of Central American migrants headed to the southern border.
A little more than 2,100 remain deployed, but that number has already started to drop and will continue to drop in the coming weeks as blue states pull out from the mission, according to Pentagon officials.
The mission was renewed through Sept. 30, the end of fiscal 2019
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Deputize them so they can perform law enforcement duties.
It led to 79,000 illegal aliens getting caught and released last month and a projected 100,000 illegal aliens caught and released this month. We should have 200,000 military on the border. I am not impressed.
That’s all? No use having them there or building a wall eh? Is this bizzaro world? No, lib-o-drome!
Yeah. Also have the Armored Divisions invade Mexico and change their government. Withdraw and build a 100ft high wall with electric wire. I know. I’m dreamin.
“That is going to cut into a lot of politicians’ retirement funds”
If the pols are bought by the Cartels- doubt they are worrying about their retirement fund- more worried how to keep their heads if the wall gets built
That’s 17 tons of drugs seized. There are a lot of unhappy Democrats out there, but alive ones because of what the National Guard and Border Patrol did.
Maybe they will understand that the NG and BP saved the lives of their children, if they even give a damn.
The border is WIDE OPEN. A quarter million illegal democrat voters coming in per month and this ‘admin’ is allowing it. He’s handing 2020 to the rats never to have another republican elected again. It’s a g-damn horror show.
We should colonize Honduras. Already about half their population is here, and a good portion of the military age men. What would stop someone from colonizing Honduras?
so, to summerize from the headline....
Over 23000 arrested with an average of over a pound of drugs each.
(Am I ready for a network job yet?)
Ehen these stats are released wish they show a breakdown where these arrests are taking place.
The only people blaming Trump are people that are completely uniformed about what is going on. I live here and deal with border issues every day. I don’t know a single person living here that blames Trump in any way.
We all sat back and let the dims run things their way for decades. They had decades to appoint dim judges, and get immigration laws changed, court decisions their way. Got the narrative their way. I was here posting on border issues years ago and conservative posters right here threw dim talking points at me and anyone else that posted the truth about border issues.
Look at the number of posts now on border issue threads, many say they care and want it solved. Yet few care enough to inform themselves or even post on border threads.
This border didn’t get out of control overnight and it won’t be under control over night either. If people don’t educate themselves about what the real issues are it will never be solved and we will lose our country to illegals.
Talk is cheap, if any of you are really concerned educate yourselves and stand up with Trump.
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