US to cut troops along Mexico border but extend deployment

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. plans to cut the number of active-duty troops along the border with Mexico but extend the unusual deployment for another 45 days, U.S. officials said Friday.

Overall troop levels assigned to assist the Department of Homeland Security with border enforcement will drop from 5,600 to about 4,000 under a new proposal from the agency to the Pentagon.

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis was traveling and had not yet signed off on the plan but the Pentagon has been working with DHS on the request and it is expected to get approval, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

President Donald Trump ordered the unusual deployment of active-duty troops to the border in response to a caravan of Central American migrants walking north toward the U.S. Critics dismissed the deployment as a political stunt ahead of the midterm elections.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-to-cut-troops-along-mexico-border-but-extend-deployment/ar-BBQjM8U?li=BBnbcA1

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Not a peep from people who constantly whine that democrats dont support the troops

BTW, it has always been the Democrats who support the troops.

stupid fucking cons

[pecosbob]

2. Here we begin the normalization of troops being used domestically in violation of the Constitution.

There will always be an imaginary bad guy. Sacrifice freedom for security and you get neither.