BETTER: Deploying ED-209 to guard the border.
Posted on 07/25/2025 10:28:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this Arizona frontier community.
The man lowers himself toward U.S. soil between coils of concertina wire. Shouts ring out, an alert is sounded and a U.S. Border Patrol SUV races toward the wall — warning enough to send the man scrambling back over it, disappearing into Mexico.
The sighting Tuesday was one of only two for the Army infantry unit patrolling this sector of the southern border, where an emergency declaration by President Donald Trump has thrust the military into a central role in deterring migrant crossings between U.S. ports of entry.
“Deterrence is actually boring,” said 24-year-old Army Sgt. Ana Harker-Molina, voicing the tedium felt by some fellow soldiers over the sporadic sightings during two days in which The Associated Press embedded with the military on the border.
“Just if we’re sitting here watching the border, it’s helping our country,” said Harker-Molina, an immigrant herself who came from Panama at age 12 and became a U.S. citizen two years ago while serving in the Army.
U.S. troop deployments at the border have tripled to 7,600 and include every branch of the military — even as the number of attempted illegal crossings plummet and Trump has authorized funding for an additional 3,000 Border Patrol agents, offering $10,000 signing and retention bonuses.
The military mission is guided from a new command center at a remote Army intelligence training base alongside southern Arizona’s Huachuca Mountains. There, a community hall has been transformed into a bustling war room of battalion commanders and staff with...
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This is what I voted for!!!
“a U.S. Border Patrol SUV races toward the wall — warning enough to send the man scrambling back over it, disappearing into Mexico”
In the next budget bill, Trump should ask for funding for a moat stocked with ill tempered sea bass with frikkin laser beams on their heads.
“”laser beams””
If the DoD is going to have to maintain a permanent presence, then a long term solution is required.
Build a cavalry/constabulary force task organized to screen (a tactical
Task to provide early warning to a force) for the Border Patrol. With sufficient combat power to conduct a short term guard or cover mission in case a larger force (cartels or irregulars) attempt to force a crossing.
BETTER: Deploying ED-209 to guard the border.
-——a long term solution is required-——
He who climbs the fence and invades America can be shot dead
Death is a great deterrant
$10K Signing Bounus!!!!
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Hurry
Lines are Forming!
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Good, but I'd prefer they drop the "u".
Sounds like someone testing the system….
Shouts ring ot
Hahahaha 😆😂
It’s so damn funny because I was thinking that exact thing 🤣
RANCHERS ALONG THE BORDER MUST BE FEELING BETTER
Turkey shoot. Should have put a few rounds into the wall near him. See how fast he can run for it.
SOProcedure ought to be rigging some manikins (SP?) hanging limply on the wall every hundred yards or so. Like those that tried but died on the wire.
As good as signs posted in the languages of the multitude of criminals trying to get across.
“Deterrence is actually boring,”
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Because there is no shooting on sight?
The signs should say that we castrate men who do it with underage kids. That would make tons of 3rd world men think twice about coming here. I don't know how many of them can change that habit.
Me too! 👍🏻👍🏻
Nice to have the US military protecting our border!
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