Thread: REPORT: Mattis Will Order 800 Additional Troops to U.S.-Mexico Border

REPORT: Mattis Will Order 800 Additional Troops to U.S.-Mexico Border

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News reports claim that Secretary of Defense James Mattis will order an additional 800 troops to the U.S. border with Mexico in response to the new migrant caravan.

CNN and the Associated Press reported on Thursday that Defense Secretary James Mattis could order additional troops to the southern U.S. border as early as this week. CNN claims that officials said the final details on the deployment orders are being worked out. It is not clear if these will be additional National Guard troops or active duty military, the article states.


President Donald Trump hinted at the military response to the Central American caravan in a Tweet on Thursday where he said, “I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!”

Donald J. Trump

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Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council is right when he says on @foxandfriends that the Democrat inspired laws make it tough for us to stop people at the Border. MUST BE CHANDED, but I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!

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https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/10/25/report-mattis-will-order-800-additional-troops-to-u-s-mexico-border/

So generous of you Mattis.

Will you allow them to be armed or are you sending them in for the invaders to throw rocks at?

To do what? Provide support services for Border Patrol while they let the illegal alien caravan into the US in small groups like they did the last one that inspired this new larger one?

Mattis expected to send hundreds of troops to border

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25 Oct 2018WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to sign an order as early as Thursday sending 800 or more troops to the southern border to support the Border Patrol.


Mattis is responding to a request from President Donald Trump, who says he’s “bringing out the military” to address what he’s calling a national emergency at the border.

The U.S. official was not authorized to speak publicly because the details had not yet been finalized and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The additional troops are to provide what one official described as logistical support to the Border Patrol. This would include a variety of things such as vehicles, tents and equipment.
There already are about 2,000 National Guard troops assisting at the border under a previous Pentagon arrangement.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/matti...ops-to-border/

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

To do what? Provide support services for Border Patrol while they let the illegal alien caravan into the US in small groups like they did the last one that inspired this new larger one?

Another article says-----The additional troops are to provide what one official described as logistical support to the Border Patrol. This would include a variety of things such as vehicles, tents and equipment.

More kabuki theater from our CIC and his mad dog Mattis. What an embarrassment!

Put our troops to work building the wall.

We have a massive military budget...get going!

Pentagon to send about 800 troops to US-Mexico border

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AFP25 Oct 20182Washington (AFP) – The Pentagon is expected to deploy about 800 troops to the US-Mexico border, two US officials told AFP on Thursday, after President Donald Trump said the military would be used there to tackle a “national emergency.”


The active-duty troops would augment the 2,000 or so National Guardsmen already deployed to support operations on the border, and could come from multiple military bases around the US.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was expected to sign orders at some point Thursday for the new deployment, one official said.


The troops would include doctors and engineers and would be used mainly to provide logistical support including tents, vehicles and equipment.


The official said the troops would satisfy elements of a “wish list” for military assistance sent to the Pentagon by the Department of Homeland Security, the huge US agency with responsibility for the border.


Trump earlier Thursday tweeted that “Democrat inspired” laws make it difficult to stop people at the border.


“I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!” he said.


In April, Trump said he would send thousands of National Guard troops to the southern border.


That initial authorization allowed for about 4,000 Guardsmen to be sent to the frontier, but only about half that number have been deployed.


Those troops are mainly serving in a support role to help free up border patrol officers.


– ‘Onslaught’ –
Thursday’s move comes as thousands of Central American migrants are crossing Mexico toward the United States in a caravan.


The issue has become a rallying cry for the US president, who has taken a hard line on illegal immigration and has repeatedly kept the story in the headlines in the run up to America’s mid-term Congressional elections that could see the Democrats regain some degree of power.


In a series of tweets last week, Trump signaled his intention to send more troops, saying that unless Mexico stopped the “onslaught” of people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, he would “call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!”


He has also announced the US would start cutting aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.


Guatemalan Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel dismissed the threat as a posture adopted for the media, however, telling reporters that the country had received no official notice of the move.


“We have had no official information, and I rather think it has all been a show for the media,” the diplomat said Thursday, adding that the two countries maintained “excellent relations.”


Early Thursday, the caravan set off from the town of Mapastepec in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, moving on to the next stop in their long march north.


They were headed to the town of Pijijiapan, some on trucks but most making the seven-hour trek on foot.


Four days after crossing into Mexico, the caravan is still more than 3,000 kilometers (1,860 miles) from the US border, moving along a route that runs parallel with the Pacific coast.


“It’s hard, and we know this country is dangerous too, but back in Honduras it’s even more dangerous, they kill for nothing,” said Josena Anibal Mejia, 27, as he walked with his daughter.


The United Nations estimates that 7,000 people have joined the caravan since it set out from San Pedro Sula, Honduras October 13.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/penta...mexico-border/

Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

He has also announced the US would start cutting aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.


Guatemalan Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel dismissed the threat as a posture adopted for the media, however, telling reporters that the country had received no official notice of the move.


“We have had no official information, and I rather think it has all been a show for the media,” the diplomat said Thursday, adding that the two countries maintained “excellent relations.”

Very little doubt cutting aid as well as the 800 troops is all for the media, and for those with blinders on.

800 more unarmed mechanics, horse barn cleaners, camera monitors, etc. That will be about as useful against a possible 14,000 illegal alien border rush as spitting into the wind during a hurricane.

Troops will provide caravan with doctors and lawyers to provide legal representation.