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

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

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The new “Cabinet order” was signed by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, not President Donald Trump.

I wasn't aware open borders John Kelly had been promoted to CIC.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

His orders are signed by Trump and Kelly.

He can only do what he is ordered to do.

The confusing part of the article....

The "decision memorandum" was signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday and ran through Derek S. Lyons, a Harvard-educated lawyer and White House staff secretary to John Kelly, the White House chief of staff and former U.S. Marine general. The documents were obtained from a Defense Department source.

Kelly signed the memo late Tuesday authorizing U.S. service members to perform “military protective activities,” allowing service members to use “a show or use of force (including lethal force, where necessary), crowd control, temporary detention, and cursory search,” as determined by Defense Secretary James Mattis to protect agents with Customs and Border Protection (CPB).

The news of the memo was first reported by The Military Times on Wednesday morning but said the president did not sign off on the White House directive. The memo obtained by Newsweek shows Trump signed off on the order to Mattis. (You can read the full memo at the bottom of this article.)

John Kelly Authorizing Troops to Use Lethal Force at the Border Is Unlawful and Alarming