Posted on 04/04/2018 11:44:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sending troops to the border not only violates American law, it is the least politically savvy play the president could make.
Donald Trump is threatening to place soldiers on the U.S.-Mexico border to face off against a thousand-strong caravan of Central Americans who started in Honduras and are slowly winding their way through Mexico and plan to enter los Estados Unidos. And I can’t wait: Those refugees need Marines to protect them from ICE agents.
Our Coast Guard should have bulk tents, water, food and showers for everyone who shows up. And who better than Uncle Sam’s troops to offer a formal apology for directly and indirectly creating the conditions that have forced so many Central Americans to make the trek north over the past four decades in the first place.
So, unlike many of my fellow open-borderistas, I welcome news that Donald Trump wants to send in the troops. It’ll be far more cost-effective than a border wall, and it wouldn't hurt to call back our fighting men, women and transgender people from all of our imperialist adventures across the world and place them on la frontera.
Alas, my dream won’t happen. Brigades-on-the-border are just another saber rattle by a president who always seeks scapegoats among the most oppressed of people. He’s found a perfect candidate with this caravan, which he has already cast as evil-doers whom must be kept out, regardless of the Constitution, federal law or the federal budget.
If any of those in the caravan get sent back and die at the hands of the people they traveled so far to escape, the blood will be on Trump’s hands. Our troops deserve better than to be used as pawns in some reality-show reality by a power-hungry and attention-seeking tyrant.
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Hitting the right letters on this phone is impossible
That was the intent when “invade” took a lot of effort to stage.
Problem is it’s so quick to “invade” (ex.: ICBMs), or to invade elsewhere and have significant consequences here (ex.: WWII).
Hence the doctrine of decisive handling of threats abroad before they produce serious effects at home ... and the subsequent hesitation to bring military force here (if they’re needed _here_, something went _really_ wrong _there_).
Gustavo,
Take a long swim across the Rio Grande....
Back to Mexico.
And this little prick has personally assumed the costs of how many criminal Invaders?
Yeah, Zero! But he sure likes the idea of everyone else footing the bill while these parasites destroy the Country’s Social structure.
Note to Goosestepper, these criminals are low educated, low skill people that will take generations to get off the taxpayer teet, if they ever do so.
LMAO!!! This clown is serious???? Go Trump!!!! I guess the moron,affiliated with NBC doesn’t understand how the National Guard can be federalizedand then utilized to defend our nation!!!!!
ORANGE County
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There ya’ go, the two already have something in common.
Gustavo is found to be lacking in gusto. Perhaps POTUS will lend him some of his.
Trump is WINNING on this issue!
The caravan has announced they are disbanding the trip in Mexico City. I guess they don’t want to do anything that would enhance Trump’s popularity. . . more winning. Gustavo, this was before the fat lady even took the stage. . . .
I’ll bet a prime rib dinner that this guy is LA RAZA thru & thru.
It is NOT ILLEGAL for any President to repel invaders of this country or any other.
Someone in Calif needs to drive this guy back to his country of origin.
Today-—IF you are NOT part of the SOLUTION-—You definately are part of the PROBLEM.
So, Gustavo is saying they come from shitholes.
I’m glad I don’t know what it feels like to be that stupid.
Bastardo
wasn’t Gustavo one of those quiet little mouses when Zero sent the Natl Guard to the border?
“They are not allowed to act as police, but they are very much allowed to act as spotters for the border patrol.”
They can act as soldiers to stop invaders, well within their rights.
They can patrol in desert tan humvees and guard the detainee stockades
Another enemy of America pretending he giving constructive advice.
Tough tacos, Gustavo. Watch a real man in action.
American leftists, too. NBC first published that screed.
Gustavo! We agree. They should all be interned in a tent camp in Minot, ND. Indefinitely and very Publicly.
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