The Trump White House has released the mission’s the troops are performing…
As for President’s Bush and Obama?
They are performing SUPPORT actions…
Not going on DIRECT interdiction missions….
They are prohibited from actually joining Border Cops in going directly after illegal’s ….
This, as other Donald Trump noise?
Is trying to sell something that is actually different than advertised…
All of the National Guard troops will assist with ground and aerial surveillance, road and vehicle support, and administrative and mechanical support, said Vitiello. Whether they carry firearms is up to each state’s governor….
jamesb says
President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy members of the National Guard to the southern U.S. border with Mexico is “a colossal waste of resources,” according to the leader of a union representing members of the U.S. Border Patrol.
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd, who represents roughly 15,000 agents, panned the measure that the president implemented last month to beef up border security and curb illegal immigration, regarding it as fruitless, according to a Los Angeles Times report released late Thursday. “We have seen no benefit,” Judd said….
Politico….