WASHINGTON (AP) — The Mexican foreign ministry says U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has told Mexico’s top diplomat that U.S. National Guard troops being deployed to the border “will not carry arms or carry out migration or customs control activities.”
Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray is in Washington on a visit. A foreign ministry statement issued Wednesday night says Nielsen told Videgaray that the troops will only be providing support for Department of Homeland Security work.
It says the deployment will be similar to ones in 2006 under President George Bush and in 2010 with President Barack Obama.
Trump signed a proclamation earlier Wednesday ordering the secretary of defense to support the Department of Homeland Security in securing the southern border to stop the flow of drugs and migrants.
So why are they even bothering taking these National Guard people from their everyday lives? Could it be just another “photo-op” for Trump?
That is exactly what this is. 2017 saw the fewest arrests for illegal border crossings in 42 years. I am finding it hard to believe that state governors will be going along with this dog and pony show. They should not allow the dotard to needlessly disrupt the lives of their citizens for a political show.
The National Guard troops will form a big beautiful human wall until Congress caves and lets the fucking moron baby-man build his real one. Here’s some Guard members practicing during an event earlier this year…
Soooooooo … these highly-trained National Guard soldiers will be what, exactly? Office assistants in combat boots? Will their deployment training include the secret menu at Starbucks? This stunt is grossly insulting to these men and women who signed up to serve their country.