Trump Announces Plan to Deploy US Military to Southern Border in Guard Action Until Wall Constructed (Youtube)
April 3rd, 2018
Trump Announces Plan to Deploy US Military to Southern Border in Guard Action Until Wall Constructed (Youtube)
Published on April 3rd, 2018 @ 07:43:00 pm , using 363 words,
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It will be well beyond entertaining to listen to the howls emitted by the Democrat media, with Trump’s decision to deploy the US military in a southern border guard action.
But, just remember this; both Presidents Bush and Barack Obama deployed the US military to the southern border during their presidencies, at least once. The only difference being, this time, is the fact that Trump is deadly serious in his border action, where the other two presidents were doing it merely for political effect…
~ Refocus Notes
President Donald Trump said he plans to deploy the U.S. military to guard the border with Mexico and has told Mexican leaders he would abandon NAFTA without assurances of help on securing the boundary.
“We are going to do some things, I’ve been talking to General Mattis, we’re going to be doing things militarily until we can have a wall and proper security,” Trump said Tuesday during a meeting with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. “We’re going to be guarding our border with the military.”
Trump has previously suggested that he could use money allocated for the U.S. military to construct the border wall for which he has so far been unable to secure congressional funding. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to say how Trump would re-direct the funding, which likely would require additional congressional approval.
The Defense Department has in the past helped the Department of Homeland Security with border security measures, and George W. Bush and Barack Obama both deployed National Guard troops to the border during their presidency to bolster security.
Trump also said he had heard that a caravan of Ecuadorian refugees traveling through Mexico in hopes of entering the U.S. was being broken up by the Mexican government, and credited his own pressure campaign over trade.
“They did it because I said, frankly, I said you really had to do it,” Trump said. “We’re going to have a relationship on NAFTA, we’re going to have to include security in NAFTA.”
More than 1,000 Central Americans, mostly from Honduras, are traveling north toward the U.S.’s southern border with the help of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a group that has organized several similar “refugee caravans” in recent years.
