OldLady
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I heard on CNN this a.m. that this is not some new crazy idea dreamed up by Trump; Bush and Obama also called in the Guard on occasion to assist. They say April is always a big month for illegal immigration (farming gets rolling), so whether or not there actually ARE a lot of people trying to cross the border, they figure they will be coming.Posse Comitatus Act - WikipediaWhy doesn't he just send in the Army or something?
The National Guard is the precedent.
More like Congress can't interfere, and tie it all up.
He's sending the guard until the wall is built to protect our borders before
scum like this caravan get in. These Central Americans are doing him a big favor. He's able to bully Mexico because if they don't help he cancels NAFTA
and cripples them financially.
For Congress...no wall means funding those troops. The Wall, in the long run will be cheaper. Any violence toward Guardsmen by Latinos on the border
and he'll have a green light to put regular Army on the Border.
70% of the country doesn't want illegal immigration. Do the dems run on
removing the Guard nd opening up our borders or do the cave on the wall
in its entirety. Remember the new spending bill comes up on Sept 30th.
So the Dems will have to commit by then.
Everybody played into his hands nicely on this one.
It's still going to cost $$$ though, since the states wouldn't agree to pay for the deployment. I was wrong earlier that Trump got 2 bil--he only got 1.5 bil, but shit, that still seems like enough to hire. But the $$ didn't go through until the Omnibus in March, so there hasn't been time to hire and train.
Maybe we do need more Wall. In the long run, has anyone done a cost analysis of how much it costs to play tag with these folks day in and day out, year after year? Can the border patrol tell us what percentage come overland over the border and how many sneak through customs and how many come by boat?
I never hear actual useful stats like that. Just that the BROWN PEOPLE ARE COMING! HOLD ONTO YOUR PANTS CUZ THEY'RE GONNA RAPE YOU!