This is the Trump we love!
When something needs doing, he doesn't do it small.
Originally, there was a plan to send only a 1000 troops to the border to stop the migrant
caravan invasion force.
Then Trump was like, "Nah, we need ta go big time."
And boom, now 5200 active-duty troops are on the way, and there could be even more sent.
When was the last time a president acted this boldly to secure our border?
I don't think a president ever has until Trump!
USA Today reported:
"Just one week shy of the midterm elections, the Pentagon will deploy at least 5,200 active-duty
troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to prevent members of a migrant caravan from
illegally entering the country, the Department of Defense announced Monday.
About 2,100 National Guard troops already were fanned out across the border under an
order from President Donald Trump this year.
In recent weeks, the president has been warning repeatedly about the dangers posed by the
caravan of mostly Central American migrants, which stands at about 3,500 people after 1,700
of them filed asylum applications in Mexico or accepted assistance to return to their
home countries.
Administration officials said last week that they were considering a plan to send up to
1,000 active-duty troops to the border, but that deployment, dubbed Operation Faithful
Patriot, will now surpass 5,200, said Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy, commander of U.S.
Northern Command.
He said the number of troops could rise depending on the demands placed on U.S. Customs and
Border Protection agents manning the border.
"That is just the start of this operation," O'Shaughnessy said during a news conference
at CBP headquarters in Washington on Monday.
"Border security is national security."
National Guard units have already been assisting by monitoring video surveillance feeds to
direct Border Patrol agents manning the vast stretches between U.S. ports of entry.
The new deployment of active-duty troops will include helicopter and other aviation units
armed with night vision technology to help identify anyone trying to illegally cross
the border, and to deploy CBP agents to apprehend them, O'Shaughnessy said.
"We will be able to spot and identify groups, and rapidly deploy," he said.
The operation will also include engineering units to build temporary barriers, lay out
concertina wire at ports of entry, and construct temporary housing for U.S. personnel, he said.
About 800 troops are already en route to Texas from Fort Campbell and Fort Knox, and more
will follow this week headed toward Arizona and California.
Typically, migrant caravans travel in numbers to seek safety and avoid risks such as kidnap,
rape and extortion.
When the last migrant caravan reached the U.S. border in April, a majority of people
presented themselves at ports of entry to request asylum, a legal way to enter the United
States.
A Homeland Security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because plans were
not yet finalized, said the president is expected to deliver a speech this week to outline further
actions to halt the migrant caravan, which could include limiting, or halting, the ability
of migrants to request asylum.
That move would be predicated on national security arguments similar to those used to
enact Trump's travel ban last year on certain individuals from Muslim-dominated countries
and would meet the same legal challenges by immigration advocacy and civil rights organizations."
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