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    READ: Trump's memo ordering National Guard troops to the border

    READ: Trump's memo ordering National Guard troops to the border


    (CNN)The White House announces that President Donald Trump has signed the presidential memorandum for sending National Guard troops on assignment to the southern border. Here is the full memorandum:



    April 4, 2018



    SUBJECT: Securing the Southern Border of the United States


    1. The security of the United States is imperiled by a drastic surge of illegal activity on the southern border. Large quantities of fentanyl, other opioids, and other dangerous and illicit drugs are flowing across our southern border and into our country at unprecedented levels, destroying the lives of our families and loved ones. Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and other deadly transnational gangs are systematically exploiting our unsecured southern border to enter our country and develop operational capacity in American communities throughout the country. The anticipated rapid rise in illegal crossings as we head into the spring and summer months threatens to overwhelm our Nation's law enforcement capacities.


    2. The combination of illegal drugs, dangerous gang activity, and extensive illegal immigration not only threatens our safety but also undermines the rule of law. Our American way of life hinges on our ability as a Nation to adequately and effectively enforce our laws and protect our borders. A key and undeniable attribute of a sovereign nation is the ability to control who and what enters its territory.

    3. Our professional and dedicated U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and officers, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, and other Federal, State, and local law enforcement personnel work tirelessly to defend our homeland against these threats. They risk their lives daily to protect the people of this country. Theirs is a record of dedication and sacrifice, meriting the unwavering support of the entire United States Government.

    4. The situation at the border has now reached a point of crisis. The lawlessness that continues at our southern border is fundamentally incompatible with the safety, security, and sovereignty of the American people. My Administration has no choice but to act.

    5. The Department of Defense currently assists other nations in many respects, including assisting with border security, but the highest sovereign duty of the President is to defend this Nation, which includes the defense of our borders.

    6. The President may assign a mission to the Secretary of Defense to support the operations of the Department of Homeland Security in securing our southern border, including by requesting use of the National Guard, and to take other necessary steps to stop the flow of deadly drugs and other contraband, gang members and other criminals, and illegal aliens into the country. The Secretary of Defense may use all available authorities as appropriate, including use of National Guard forces, to fulfill this mission. During the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the National Guard provided support for efforts to secure our southern border. The crisis at our southern border once again calls for the National Guard to help secure our border and protect our homeland.

    Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 502 of title 32, United States Code, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby direct as follows:


    Section 1. The Secretary of Defense shall support the Department of Homeland Security in securing the southern border and taking other necessary actions to stop the flow of deadly drugs and other contraband, gang members and other criminals, and illegal aliens into this country. The Secretary of Defense shall request use of National Guard personnel to assist in fulfilling this mission, pursuant to section 502 of title 32, United States Code, and may use such other authorities as appropriate and consistent with applicable law.

    Sec. 2. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall work with the Secretary of Defense to provide any training or instruction necessary for any military personnel, including National Guard units, to effectively support Department of Homeland Security personnel in securing the border.

    Sec. 3. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Attorney General, are directed to determine what other resources and actions are necessary to protect our southern border, including Federal law enforcement and United States military resources. Within 30 days of the date of this memorandum, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall submit to the President a report detailing their findings and an action plan, including specific recommendations as to any other executive authorities that should be invoked to defend the border and security of the United States.

    Sec. 4. Any provision of any previous proclamation, memorandum, or Executive Order that is inconsistent with the actions taken in this memorandum is superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.

    Sec. 5.
    (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

    (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

    (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

    (b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

    (c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.


    DONALD J. TRUMP
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    DO NOT FORGET ALL THE DISEASES THEY HAVE AND ARE INFECTING OUR PEOPLE WITH!!!

    DO NOT FORGET ALL THE PREGNANT ONES, THE HEALTH ISSUES MANY OF THEM HAVE!

    WE DO NOT WANT TO PAY FOR THEIR CARE...SEND THEM BACK!

    THIS IS A NATIONAL HEALTH ISSUE AS WELL!

    DO NOT DETAIN...DEPORT WITHIN 24 HOURS. EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD NEED TO BE DEPORTED ASAP!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    * Where are Border Patrol agents stationed? How far into the United States? *

    July 10, 2014

    Gov. Rick Perry: Obama Didn’t Know the Border Patrol Was Stationed 40 Miles From Border (Video)

    Governor Rick Perry told Sean Hannity tonight that after his discussions with Barack Obama this week it was clear to him that Barack did not even know the border patrol agents are stationed nearly 40 miles from the border.

    “We ought to be stopping people from crossing that border not apprehending them after they get in here. And the president understood that. And, interesting he did not know that. He, I’m comfortable, that he was not knowledgeable about where his border patrol was stationed. And, he gave me indications that he would work with them to move them upward to where they could be side-by-side DPS, with local law enforcement.”

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    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014...-border-video/

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    These troops need to be ON THE BORDER, not 40 miles inside. Kind of odd to find out that Border Patrol is 40 miles from the border. How strange is that?
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    Gov. Rick Perry: Obama Didn’t Know the Border Patrol Was Stationed 40 Miles From Border
    HA -HA, LIAR!

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    (Mentions the 45 miles that the Border Patrol agents are from the border)

    Exclusive: Rick Perry on his meeting with President Obama


    This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," July 9, 2014. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
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    SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Joining me now on more of tonight's meeting with the president is none other than Texas Governor Rick Perry. Governor, good to see you. How are you?

    GOV. RICK PERRY, R-TEXAS: Sean, it's good to be with you. Welcome to Texas.

    HANNITY: Soon to be a citizen, I hope.

    PERRY: Indeed.

    HANNITY: The president said that you made sense, the meeting was -- the conversation was constructive. What do you say?

    PERRY: Well, I'm glad the president thinks what I said makes sense because we've been saying it for many years now. Since back in 2005, we've known that this border was a real issue. And particularly in '09, we had signaled the president and signaled Homeland Security of the massive amount of problems that could occur, and they needed to secure the border.
    And I will suggest to you, had the money been spent back in those days to put the National Guard troops on the border to bolster the border patrol, we wouldn't be seeing the issues that we have today. And it is a humanitarian crisis, and that, I will suggest, is the reason the president needs to come to the border to see it himself. I think about the criticism that George W. Bush received when he didn't go to New Orleans, Katrina. This is no different. This president needs...

    HANNITY: Did you ask him?

    PERRY: Absolutely. The first thing I asked him when I got onto Air Force One, I said, Mr. President, I said, I really want you to come and see this because, I said, this is important for you to absorb as a father, but more importantly as the president of the United States, to see the humanitarian crisis and to also understand how you can move the border patrol forward, away from the 45 miles or so back they are today, to be right on the border, to see what the Department of Public Safety is doing with our gunboats in the river to stop the criminal activity that's going on.

    That's what the president needs to see. He needs to understand instinctively and intuitively and with his own two eyes what's going on on that border.

    HANNITY: So you think he's making a mistake by not coming. And he's -- he talked about, you know, Well, I have -- I've sent this guy, Jeh whatever his name is, down six times, Jeh Johnson.

    PERRY: Yes. Well, I'm pretty sure that if George Bush had said, Well, I sent my FEMA director down multiple times, that he would have still been criticized greatly because you need to go. That's what governors do, that's what presidents do when there are natural disasters, when there is crises like this.

    A president needs to be there to show the American people, number one, that he understands and...

    HANNITY: You first invited for what I guess you viewed as a photo-op to meet the president on the tarmac, and you said no, but if you're willing to talk about the humanitarian and national security crisis, I'll be glad to meet with you. President -- did he give in to pressure? Did he seem like he wanted to be at the meeting? Walk us through it.

    PERRY: Well, I think the president thinks it's important to talk to governors. I certainly hope he does, particularly one that -- I may have been a bit of a thorn in his side through the years, but I've tried to do it in a respectful way and a thoughtful way, and what I think is right for the people of the state of Texas, and in this case, what's right for America.

    And I didn't want to just go show up on the ramp in Austin, Texas, and shake his hand and say, Welcome to Texas, Mr. President, when the fact is, we have a humanitarian crisis on our hands on the southern border, and the president needs to be engaged. The president needs -- he's coming to Texas. He's 311 miles from Austin to Mcallen. I mean, Air Force One is a pretty fast ride.

    HANNITY: He's used...

    (CROSSTALK)

    HANNITY: ... $44 million worth, according to the last estimate. Let me ask from this standpoint. You requested specific things from him, and the president responded. What did you ask for and what did he say?

    PERRY: And the president said that all of these -- philosophically, he said he agreed with all of these. The first was to put the National Guard -- to secure the border. And we know how to secure the border. Steve McCraw (ph), the director of the department of public safety -- we've done enough surges. We know how to put the resources on the border to drive down the criminal activities astoundingly low. I mean, it's amazing what happens when you surge in. When you show that force, if you will, then the cartels and the other illegal activities drop down considerably, I mean, amazingly low, Sean.

    HANNITY: So you can effectively control the border.

    PERRY: You can secure the border. And that's what I shared with him today. I said, Mr. President, you can secure the border. We've done it. We'll show you how to do it. And -- but I said, You really can't do it unless you allow the National Guard to come in and to play a very prominent and visible role, move that border patrol.

    The -- the -- and he agreed with this philosophical thing. I'm not sure the president understood that border patrol is sitting back about 40, 45 miles now with their checkpoints, so when the illegal activity occurs, whether it's drug running or whatever it might be, and people are apprehended and -- we're not interested in apprehension. We're interested in prevention. And that's the reason that being on the border -- our DPS troopers, that surge we put into place...


    HANNITY: You're up close. You're on the border.

    PERRY: We're on the border. Tomorrow, you're going to be on the border...

    HANNITY: I'm out with you.

    PERRY: ... and in the river.

    HANNITY: We're going to be in the river. We're going to be up in the air. We're going to be out on a boat, and we're going to go up close and see it. Is this -- the trip that we're going on tomorrow, is that the trip that the president should be taking?

    PERRY: He would be very well served...

    HANNITY: Let me...

    PERRY: ... not only politically because he thinks it's a political photo-op. It's not. It's about real people and real issues, a humanitarian crisis that he has the ability to stop.

    HANNITY: Let me ask you about that because the president repeatedly mentioned the supplemental, the supplemental. He's requesting of Congress, what, $3.7 billion for this specific issue.

    PERRY: And I might add less than 2 percent of it is for border security.

    HANNITY: OK. That's the point. Here's -- you mentioned a humanitarian crisis. If this is a national security issue -- in other words...

    PERRY: Which it is, as well.

    HANNITY: All right. If it is, would he then not therefore have the authority and the responsibility, frankly, to secure the border for national security reasons, and couldn't he do that on his own?

    PERRY: Well, I certainly think he can. I think that he could direct the DOD to put Title 32, which is where the federal government pays for these. And he keeps going back to that, you know, The Republicans in Congress just won't work with me, and they have to fund this $3.7 billion bill.

    And you know, Mr. President, you can deal with this. You can unilaterally direct the Department of Defense to put those troops on the border, to do that work. And he starts talking about a philosophical issue that he may or may not have with that.

    And we're past that. If you want to send the message to those Central American countries, to those families down there that are hearing messages, If you'll just send your children up to the Texas border, have them cross, they can stay in America...

    HANNITY: Let me ask you this. He said parents need to know that it is dangerous and it's unlikely their kids will stay, and the majority of kids will be sent back. When you look at the money -- Senator Coburn said for $8 million, you can fly every kid home and reunite them with their parents. Why do you think he's requesting all that money if none of it's going to be -- none of it's going to solve the underlying problem, which is that the border is wide open?

    PERRY: So the supplemental from my -- and I -- look, I haven't gotten into the weeds on this, but from my perspective, the supplemental isn't about securing the border. The supplemental about something else.

    HANNITY: What do you think it's about?

    PERRY: And you'll have to get the president to tell you what he wants those dollars for.

    HANNITY: The likelihood of that, Governor, is not very high. But I mean, $3.7 billion is a lot of money.

    PERRY: It is a huge amount of money. But again, Sean, when you start talking about less than $100 million of that is going to go for border security...

    HANNITY: Doesn't work.

    PERRY: It doesn't work.

    HANNITY: Let me ask you this. So you got to spend a lot of time with the president. Give us your read on him. Does he understand the severity of the problem? Does he -- he seemed to be kind of complaining a lot about Republicans, blaming them.

    PERRY: Yes.

    HANNITY: If everybody agrees, and you said the president agreed to secure the border and the Republicans agree to secure the border, why don't we secure the border and do the one thing that everyone agrees on, and then deal with the other issues later?
    PERRY: And this isn't a Democrat issue or a Republican issue, this is an American issue. I mean, when you have Henry Cuellar -- you had two other...

    HANNITY: He's joining us later.

    PERRY: ... two other congressmen from the valley, Vela, and Hinojosa, they both sent a letter to the president asking him to come. So this is a bipartisan ask, and it ought to be a bipartisan fix.
    And I think that's the thing that stuns me as a governor who has to deal with Democrats and Republicans in Austin, Texas, is I don't always get everything I want. As a matter of fact, I can't think of anything that I got 100 percent of, and the president needs to address this issue.

    HANNITY: Is he playing politics here?

    PERRY: I -- you know...

    HANNITY: We got to take a break, but...

    PERRY: The president can fix this unilaterally with a direct order to the DOD to put the National Guard, and not a more powerful message can be sent to Central America than that.

    HANNITY: All right, we got to take a break. We're going to come back. We'll have more with Governor Rick Perry.

    (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)

    PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We have strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible.

    JANET NAPOLITANO, SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY: I can say that our security efforts along the border are strong and getting stronger every day.
    JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I think anyone who looks at this honestly will note the tremendous strides we have made in the past four years in protecting our borders. In fact, they have never been better enforced than they are now. Like I said, our borders now are more secure than they have ever been in history.

    OBAMA: They said we needed to triple the border patrol. Well, now they're going to say we need to quadruple the border patrol, or they'll want a higher fence. Maybe they'll need a moat.

    (LAUGHTER)

    OBAMA: Maybe they want alligators in the moat. They'll never be satisfied!

    (END VIDEO CLIPS)

    HANNITY: And welcome back to "Hannity." We are in Dallas, Texas, tonight with Governor Rick Perry. That was administration officials telling us time after time the border is secure, and the president who said he doesn't want to play politics with this talking about moats and alligators. What's your reaction?

    PERRY: Well, it's same president who said al Qaeda is on the run. And you know, I don't know whether he's inept or there's something else going on, as I've said before, but the fact is the border is not secure. We have a humanitarian crisis on our hands now because the border is not secure.

    And the president needs to understand that the single most important thing that he can do is put the National Guard on the border to coordinate with local law enforcement, with our state law enforcement with the border patrol, and you can secure the border, because we have done it before. Steve McCraw, the Department of Public Safety director -- he knows how to do this. We have done it in different sectors.

    HANNITY: Bring people inside the room, because there were faith-based leaders, you're in the room, the president's there. You had this little public showdown about meeting on the tarmac or not. Bring us inside the room, your observations, your insights, your read of this man, read of him and his understanding of what we're talking about here.

    PERRY: Yes. You know, the president -- I think the president was engaged as I was discussing with him. I did a lot of listening and...

    HANNITY: Likes to talk a lot.

    PERRY: ... and the president, you know, he let me know what his feelings were about these things and what the fixes were. And I injected where I could. And the fact is, I don't know whether he heard what I said and -- and -- because a leader acts. And what I haven't seen out of this president are actions that make me think he understands what's going on.
    It's one of the reasons I want him to come to the border because I think he really needs to see how the interaction with these different law enforcements and the addition of the National Guard could secure that border. And I think if the president would see that with his own eyes, then he would act on it. You can't talk about it. You have to act, Mr. President.

    HANNITY: We got...


    PERRY: That's what leadership is.

    HANNITY: We got health issues. We've got gang members. We've got drugs crossing the border. Now we have talk of militia members maybe coming down to do the job that the federal government's not doing. I'm sure that's not something you want to have happen, is it?

    PERRY: No, it's not. And you know, we have now supplemented our appropriation. We've spent over a half a billion dollars since 2005 on the border, Texas taxpayers' dollars, to do the job that the federal government should have been doing, another $1.3 million a week on top of that.

    And you know, the president can address this. He can easily address this. I don't understand his pushback when it comes to, Well, we've got to pass this supplemental bill before we can do that.
    Mr. President, if you care about securing the border, you can direct the DOD to make those 1,000 National Guard troops available, and that would send the powerful message. You want to send some symbolic messages down to Central America and say, You no longer can send your kids up here because they can't get in.

    HANNITY: Do you think he send the message to come? Is he responsible?

    PERRY: Well, I think the policy -- I mean, the nuances of the policies, when it's catch and release, when it's that if you're from another country outside of Mexico, then you're going to be treated differently and you can stay here for up to two years -- of course, those are messages that very quickly get transported back to Central American countries.

    And so the failure of this administration to secure the border -- I wrote them a letter in -- I handed him a letter in 2010 talking about the border problem that we had and the lack of security there. We wrote a letter in 2012 talking specifically about these unaccompanied alien children. And...

    HANNITY: Governor...

    PERRY: ... if you want to fix this...

    HANNITY: Well, let me ask...

    (CROSSTALK)

    HANNITY: ... because I would look at the VA issue, and if I heard, and I were president, which by the way, everybody knows would never happen, I would set up a 1-800 number because vets are dying and we made them a promise, and that promise isn't being fulfilled. And I would make sure that vets were in desperate need of care that we were neglecting would be taken care of within at least a week.

    It seems the president doesn't ever have that sense of urgency. Are you saying that this is an urgent issue that needs to be addressed within weeks, months? What are you telling him?

    PERRY: I think you could have 1,000 National Guard troops on the border -- the message sent well before that, but in 30 days, actually have them in place. And the message would be overpowering back to Central America that you no longer can put your kid on a train, put them on a bus, send them up with a coyote and have them come into the United States because that border is now secure.

    That's the most humane thing that we can do. I mean, if you want to address this issue of all of this human cost, the most powerful thing the president of the United States...

    (CROSSTALK)
    HANNITY: ... is put them...

    HANNITY: Parents or kids.

    PERRY: Don't let them be separated to begin with.

    HANNITY: Governor, appreciate it.

    PERRY: You're welcome.

    HANNITY: Thank you so much.

    PERRY: Appreciate you being here.



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    Around 4 minutes, then Governor Perry talks to Sean Hannity about the Border Patrol needing to move forward to the border instead of staying 40-45 miles inward. He mentions moving forward at the beginning of the video, too.

    In 2018, under President Trump, where are the Border Patrol stationed? Actually at the border or inside farther back?

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    During the Bush troops on the border, they were 100 miles north of the border. It was a joke.
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