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BREAKING: Thousands of Armed U.S. Troops Will Be Deployed to the Border by Friday, Here's What...
Townhall.com ^ | October 29, 2019 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 10/29/2018 3:23:49 PM PDT by jazusamo

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Full title: BREAKING: Thousands of Armed U.S. Troops Will Be Deployed to the Border by Friday, Here's What They'll Be Doing

BREAKING: Thousands of Armed U.S. Troops Will Be Deployed to the Border by Friday, Here's What They'll Be Doing

Officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense announced Monday 5200 additional active duty U.S. troops will be deployed to the southern border with Mexico by Friday. Eight-hundred soldiers are on their way to Texas now.

“They are in fact deploying with weapons," U.S. Northern Command Air Force General Terrence O'Shaughnessy said during a press conference. "I think the President has made it clear that border security is national security."

Troops are being sent to bolster border security in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas as at least three caravans from Central America make their way through Mexico and toward the United States. The caravans pose a special threat due to their size, which range from 3,000 people to more than 10,000. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, at least one caravan near Guatamala, Mexico has used violent tactics to breach a number of international borders.

"Due to the large size of the potential caravans that may arrive at the border, the Department of Homeland Security has further requested the support of the Department of Defense," McAleenan said. "We will not allow a large group to enter the U.S. unlawfully."

Troops will be used to build fencing, provide medical units, harden points of entry and address key gaps in points of entry. Air and ground transportation will be provided to move agents and equipment. This support requires military planning teams and heavy equipment, including Black Hawk helicopters and fixed wing aircraft.

One-thousand additional Customs and Border Protection officers and agents are also being deployed to handle operations.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; armedtroops; border; bordersecurity; buildthefence; caravan; daca; dreamact; dreamers; frontpage; hondurascaravan; illegalaliens; illegalsinvasion; invasion; newmexico; opfaithfulpatriot; texas; trumpdod; ustroops
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Will they also have bullets? I remember back in the day they had weapons but no bullets.


61 posted on 10/29/2018 4:17:26 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: cableguymn

So, you think Trump would give them weapons with no bullets. To face drug cartel-weaponized invaders. Right...


62 posted on 10/29/2018 4:21:16 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: Citizen Soldier
Beats the heck out of me. Maybe this guy knows.
63 posted on 10/29/2018 4:22:35 PM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: familyop
"The “caravan” hasn’t gotten anywhere."

Because the polling went south, literally.

64 posted on 10/29/2018 4:27:34 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: jazusamo

To all those who said that sending just 800 troops was a week response; I told all of you that is was just the advance party to prepare to receive many thousands of other soldiers.


65 posted on 10/29/2018 4:30:04 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: COBOL2Java

My guess is that Trump, who has the Constitutional Authority, will declare the Mexican border closed to all but northbound with US Passports and southbound with travel visas to Mexico and beyond.No traffic, no trucks, no trains, no planes, no cash transfers, no nuffin’!


66 posted on 10/29/2018 4:30:10 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: 11th_VA
"It’s the beginning of a four state operation - starts in Texas and moves west."

Wow. All Trump has to do is to cover extended military border operations 'indefinitely' with an EO, and start building the wall with the military.

67 posted on 10/29/2018 4:31:05 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: Don Corleone

I think that’s the perfect solution


68 posted on 10/29/2018 4:35:13 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: WildHighlander57; null and void; aragorn; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ...
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PING

Check out links at # 36.

Thanks WildHighlander57, good research.

69 posted on 10/29/2018 4:40:43 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: gibsonguy

To vote for Beto no doubt


70 posted on 10/29/2018 4:42:33 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Doogle
They should disarm the illegals...and send them home....then show the demonrats what was about to enter the country...

Disarm them, that's cruel to chop their limbs off and send them back. I say off with their heads and be done with them. Heck, we can't even paintball them with the democrats interfering on their behalf.

Better to chip them like animal control does to feral animals. With scanners in our nation we can more easily find them and incarcerate or deport them. Chip them now!

71 posted on 10/29/2018 4:43:49 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat
Chip them now!

Do you realize how many wood chippers that's gonna take?

72 posted on 10/29/2018 4:46:13 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: jazusamo

Sounds tough. But I have been disappointed before. Hopefully for the last time.


73 posted on 10/29/2018 4:46:58 PM PDT by upchuck (Definition of a Republican registered to vote but doesn't on Nov 6: A DEMOCRAT!)
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To: Citizen Soldier

They will but they are starting at Texas (the nearest pint for the caravan) and then moving west to California ( the fairest point)


74 posted on 10/29/2018 4:49:08 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
The M-388 would produce an almost instantly lethal radiation dosage (in excess of 10,000 rem, 100 Sv) within 500 feet (150 m), and a probably fatal dose (around 600 rem, 6 Sv) within a quarter mile (400 m.)

The M-388 could be launched from either of two launchers known as the Davy Crockett Weapon System(s): the 4.7-inch (120 mm) M28, with a range of about 1.25 mi (2 km), or the 6.1-in (155 mm) M29, with a range of 2.5 mi (4 km.)

So using even the shorter range launch system, and the greater "probably fatal dose" radius, the shooter would be 5 times that distance away. Hopefully any troops on the FLOT would be far enough and dug in.

75 posted on 10/29/2018 4:52:04 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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To: jazusamo

oooh - CBs can build berms pretty quickly - I’d love to see the enviro weenies all up in arms as our troops build a massive set of fortifications ...


76 posted on 10/29/2018 4:52:28 PM PDT by reed13k
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

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>> “Good to know they are armed.” <<

When Clinton sent troops to the Carribean and Mogadishu they had rifles without magazines.


77 posted on 10/29/2018 4:53:17 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Billthedrill
Do you realize how many wood chippers that's gonna take?

That's not what I meant! But... the idea is an entertaining idea...

I have a wood chipper I can donate to the cause, but it will only work on small limbs. I'll donate a Sawzall and axe as well.

78 posted on 10/29/2018 4:55:35 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: WildHighlander57

Thanks for the ping! GREAT THREAD - AND EVEN BETTER NEWS!


79 posted on 10/29/2018 4:56:18 PM PDT by TEXOKIE
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To: Doogle

show of force, I guess


80 posted on 10/29/2018 4:59:37 PM PDT by Karoo
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