For several reasons, they are going to need fewer Military troops.
1. Mexico now has 20,000 new troops stopping migrants on their side.
2. The logistics support that the Military was providing for the overflow of migrants in detention is no longer needed, as flows are down almost 90% - and the Supreme Court just gave the Administration to quickly deport any future throngs that try to falsely exploit the asylum loophole, which brought those "caravans" of would be migrants.
3. The Military has been providing Mobile surveillance teams to cover gaps, but those gaps are getting closed by new Wall System, and the Border Patrol is getting their own Mobile Surveillance Systems (MSS). MSS is one of the large technology programs that are now rapidly rolling out, this year and next. By the end of next year, Border Patrol should have their own full organic capability for this mission.
Bottom Line: Despite 20% fewer troops, they will likely get a bit more actual border coverage from them, as these other detractors decline.
Sounds like they will continue the concertina crews, following behind the contractors on delivered segments of new bollards, upgrading the them with triple roll concertina.
What will Mattis say?
[ Pentagon Will Deploy 4,000 Troops to Southern Border, Starting in October ]
Uh oh, Democrats won’t like President Trump protecting America and Americans from illegal invaders.
Nor will the Boosh-loving New World Order Globalists.
Correct me if I have anything wrong. Federal money going to the building of the wall provides workers mancamps or housing subsidies while there.
If they are there some x majority of the time they can declare AZ as residence for the 2020 tax year. They can also register to vote in AZ. AZ has one of the lowest state unemployment rates at 8.9%. So they could be including wall contractors in various AZ statistics.
As a bonus Mc Sally may get some votes from wall guys.
Makes no sense, but hey, it’s voa
The Border has had our own MSS for close to a decade. Currently the Army is running some of those trucks in my AOR so that agents can be on the line. Some of the more strategicly important trucks are still maned by Border Patrol Agents.
The Military also run EIT sites and also work some of the cameras in the radio room. The extra man power is a big help as it allows agents to get on the line. We probably would not need as much support from the military if they would stop allowing agents to detail out to other agencies.
They gonna give them weapons? Real clips of bullets, or just one a la Barney Fife?
Didn’t Schiff For Brains introduce a bill saying the President could use troops before the 2020 election ,LOL