Trump Pledges To Send As Many As 10,000 Or 15,000 Troops To Border

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President Trump on Wednesday pledged to send even more troops to the border with less than a week to go before the midterm elections. Trump has ginned up fears over a caravan of asylum seeking migrants currently more than 1,000 miles away from the U.S. southern border.

“We’ll do up to anywhere between 10 and 15,000 military personnel, on top of Border Patrol, ICE and everybody else at the border. Nobody’s coming in,” Trump said.

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  1. Is this the Space Force’s first mission, then?

  2. Avatar for johnrm johnrm says:

    15k men and woman to put up tents and make sure there running water…he’ll show um…

  3. Exactly where do these 10-15K people actually get deployed from?

  4. 10-15000 troops to keep out about 3500 human beings fleeing violence and oppression and poverty. Boy, that certainly is a good look for this country. Throw our values into Trump dump. Who knows if this will happen but it is an extreme abuse of power to even threaten this. We are not at war with Mexico or Central America.

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