Trump to grant troops authority to protect border personnel from violence

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Trump is expected to give troops on the border the authority to protect Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel if they are attacked by migrants crossing into the country, CNN reported Monday, citing three U.S. officials.

Currently, the troops at the border don't have the authority to intervene if CBP personnel were to be attacked, CNN noted. The directive from Trump, which reportedly could be announced as soon as Monday night, will stipulate that any use of force by the troops must be "proportional."

Thousands of troops were deployed to the border earlier this month at the request of Trump, who has claimed that migrants fleeing violence in Central America and moving toward the border present a national security threat to the U.S.

The move from Trump to grant troops the ability to protect CBP personnel would come as thousands of migrants in recent days reached the border city of Tijuana, Mexico.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/417538-trump-to-grant-troops-authority-to-protect-cbp-personnel-from-violence-report

Trump probably has a big old woody right now hoping our military will kill some brown people.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Troops at U.S.-Mexican border to start coming home

"All the troops should be home by Christmas, as originally expected,....."
Army Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan said in an interview Monday.

"Our end date right now is 15 December, and I've got no indications from anybody that we'll go beyond that," said Buchanan, who leads the land forces of U.S. Northern Command.

The 5,800 troops who were rushed to the southwest border amid President Donald Trump’s pre-election warnings about a refugee caravan will start coming home as early as this week — just as some of those migrants are beginning to arrive.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/19/troops-us-mexico-border-come-home-1005510

[nolabear]

2. This is all so stinkin' confusing.

It’s incredible that in this age of instant communication we can have absolutely no clear idea who’s going to be where when and what the plan is for them to do anything. It’s as though the real world gets bent around the crazy until you can’t recognize it any more.

[HopeAgain]

3. It has to be that way

when the President is trying to use the military for a political farce.

[nolabear]

5. I just read where somebody said

they were all going home because they’d finished building the base camps. Soooooo, they’re abandoning the base camps they built and the base camps will be empty until...they’re just screwing with us, aren’t they?

[Wounded Bear]

6. They're not "base" camps...

They're concentration camps to house the refugees/immigrants.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Trump seems to think killing poor brown people at the border is a political winner.

I think he is as smart about political optics as he is about his choice of investment opportunities. I hope smarter heads prevail, but there are many troops who might think that killing brown people will earn them Trump's approval. And they may not be wrong about that....

[lpbk2713]

7. Kent State revisited.

Some nervous trooper will think things are getting out of control. Next thing you know all hell is breaking loose.