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The Trump administration began outlining a plan Wednesday to deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration, but will likely not allow the troops to have physical contact with immigrants, according to three administration officials. The planning follows an announcement by President Donald Trump on Tuesday that came as a surprise to many of his advisers. "Until we can have a wall and proper security, we are going to be guarding our border with the military," Trump said on Tuesday. The plans were laid out in a meeting with senior level Department of Homeland Security officials...

The United States has 14,000 troops in Afghanistan, 39,000 in Japan, 34,805 in Germany, 23,000 in South Korea, and around 5,200 in Iraq. Our military protects the borders of countless nations. Except our own. In 1919, we had 18,500 soldiers on the border. “Twice a day every foot of the border line is patrolled by cavalrymen and infantrymen,” the New York Times noted. A hundred years later, President Trump’s proposal to use the military to secure the border is controversial even though Marines fighting drug cartels have come under fire from drug smugglers. El Salvadoran migration has inflicted 207 murderers...

************ BREAKING BOOM: Trump Announces U.S. Military Will Guard Border With Mexico…