Thread: Border Patrol in riot gear ready to stop the caravan

Originally Posted by Judy

Border Patrol has riot gear, so now they can stop the caravan. Is this the plan? . . .

That has always been the plan. That's why the military is unarmed.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

That has always been the plan. That's why the military is unarmed.

If that has always been the plan, then why didn't they stop the 60,745 that come through in Oct?

Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

If that has always been the plan, then why didn't they stop the 60,745 that come through in Oct?

I didn't say it was a good plan.
Or that it would work.
(It's NOT my plan. )

Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

If that has always been the plan, then why didn't they stop the 60,745 that come through in Oct?

The 60,745 that were CAUGHT by the border patrol in October?
Border patrol is a numbers game.
The more people they CATCH, fingerprint and photograph the more money they get from congress next year.
Sadly, their job is not to prevent people from entering the country, their job is to CATCH people who have entered the country.
What happens to them next is not their job.
That is up to the immigration judges and I.C.E.
The ones that are prevented from entering can't be counted, so they don't count.

If the caravan people RUSH the border or the Port of Entry it's a whole different ball game.
Then everyone's job becomes prevention.

In total, CBP arrested or deemed inadmissible 60,745 people along the Mexico border in October, far more than any other month since Trump took office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.232c05c28dfe

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

That has always been the plan. That's why the military is unarmed.

I don't know. I really don't think riot gear that is designed to deal with protestors to the Vietnam War or Americans protesting the beating of Rodney King is going to work the same on 10,000 or more illegal aliens trying to invade the United States. I may be wrong, and hope I am, but I don't think so.

Need a back-up plan to that riot gear.

They already have their Back Up Plan.

U.S. likely to give troops authority to protect border officials

Yes, thank you.

Originally Posted by Judy

I don't know. I really don't think riot gear that is designed to deal with protestors to the Vietnam War or Americans protesting the beating of Rodney King is going to work the same on 10,000 or more illegal aliens trying to invade the United States. I may be wrong, and hope I am, but I don't think so.

Need a back-up plan to that riot gear.

When they gave the Ohio National Guard guns and bullets they shot and killed unarmed American students. That is why some people oppose armed military involvement in law enforcement.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

When they gave the Ohio National Guard guns and bullets they shot and killed unarmed American students. That is why some people oppose armed military involvement in law enforcement.

Oh I see, yes, and that's probably because law enforcement has never shot and killed unarmed Americans.

Oh wait ......

Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune

With entry lanes remaining open for entry into the U.S., agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection dressed in riot gear stage drills at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego. Heighten security measures were taken in the wake of the arrival of groups with the Central American migrant caravan in Tijuana.