Posted on 01/03/2019 6:23:16 PM PST by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has requested more U.S. troops to be deployed at the border to add 160 miles of concertina wire on top of existing border fencing, according to three U.S. officials.
If approved by Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, the addition of troops to enhance the fencing could extend the military's current deployment at the border until the end of September, based on the rate of construction, according to two officials. The military mission, which began two months ago, was set to end on Jan. 31.
The fencing that is to be reinforced with concertina wire is not new. The troops currently deployed at the border have already added concertina wire at ports of entry in Arizona, Texas and California. The request for troops to add an extra 160 miles of wire was first reported by NPR.
Construction of new barriers at the border remains a matter of debate between President Trump and Democrats in Congress. The president has refused to approve any spending bill that does not include funds for a wall, which has led to the partial shutdown of the government.
DHS is requesting more military engineers to install the concertina wire, more aviation support to move troops around the area, medical personnel and surveillance equipment, according to two sources.
If the request is approved, the Pentagon will decide how many troops to send and whether they will be active duty or National Guard troops.
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So if there are two rolls on the bottom, when the invaders drop over to the US side, are they not tangled up in the wire at the bottom? How do they get out?
Seems they would be cut up real bad. That’s one heck of a way to enter illegally. I wouldn’t drop over a thirty foot fence into two rolls of wire.
Having followed politics for forty years I have seen how the system is rigged. The odds were all against Trump especially with sixteen opponents! We witnessed a miracle in 2016.
“If approved by Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan,”
It’s statements like these that have my wanting to commit mayhem on my computer screen. He REPORTS TO THE PRESIDENT! He doesn’t get to “approve anything” that the President gives him as a DIRECT ORDER! Shanahan simply has to martial the resources and give the President a timetable for carrying out his directive.
Actually the President can get the JCOS to do it. He can directly liaison with the JCOS.
I am sure that it could. The problem with government is that it always makes things harder than it has to be.
“It’s statements like these that have my wanting to commit mayhem on my computer screen.”
#MeToo. It’s bizarre what’s going on in D.C.
Tax wire transfers to mexico 19%.
Godspeed, FRiend
I hope Pres Trump pours it on the dems in the house!! He isn’t timid and he does not like to lose.. so pour it on!!
Do the dems today know the anger they are stirring up out here? Talk of impeachment and all the dirty words and accusations spewing from their speech...
Mothers turn into mama bears when their kid is attacked... I hope there are a lot of mama bears out here who have had enough of the insults against our President and against his voters. The whole world hears this and they do not know what runs our country.. the ugly talk weakens our place in the world.. the attacks are akin to treason...
I think the older generation are more upset than the younger.. as a whole.. for we know a time when this would not go on.. could not go on... and everyone knew it. Today the world is upside down. The hosts on Fox don’t even act upset.. but there was a time when the media would have said this would not go on, on their station.. they would have been fired. Today it goes on and no one seems to think it out of place!!! And it’s hard to take.. I have to turn it off... there is no sense any more.. no decency.. no respect for the office... people have lost their minds!!!
I remember a picture that I saw of a rose bush that had canes as big around as my thumb and thorns that were about an inch long.
My husband and I thought about getting several of them to plant in front of our windows.
Pyracantha is good also——I had them around my home.
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I’d rather he sent troops into the US Capitol to make hundreds of arrests, but I’ll take what I can get.
Don’t ask just do it.
"...roses bushes with big thorns planted in front of windows..."
You got that right!
We should have fortified that border after WW II!
If the foreign invaders get stuck in the wire then the buzzards and vultures will feast.
A request, not an order? Who is in charge?
“Maybe some creative Freeper can design the Ribbon for Operation concertina... (Hint - needs to have colors of Mexican Flag)”
Speckled with red drops for the concertina.
This may be backward planning from the next caravan forming in Central America.
Mobilizing the welcoming committee.
Apparently not. Trump ordered Mattis to weed the trannies out about a year ago, instead he scheduled a few sex change operations.
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