The solders and equipment there ARE intended for Combat against armed adversaries….
NOT people unarmed seeking Freedom by foot….
The solders actually cannot arrest civilians crossinmg the border….
They CAN scare them with taxpayers paying Hundred’s of millions per week in costs to stand around …..
Although U.S. Border Patrol agents had detained two migrants nearby a few hours earlier, Zamora’s deployment — a key facet of President Donald Trump’s militarization of the U.S.-Mexico frontier — has been quiet so far, he said. A veteran of four combat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, Zamora recalled how he and his team recently observed other potential border crossers who appeared to change their plans abruptly once they spotted the olive-drab armored vehicle on a hill.
“Ever since the Stryker came into play,” he said, “we see more turn-backs than anything.”….
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Such hardware typically is reserved for missions overseas. Under Trump, it is being used to track the movement of people and narcotics bound for the United States, monitor cartel activity and send an unambiguous message that the status quo has changed.
The moves to bolster the Department of Homeland Security’s enforcement efforts have coincided with a sharp drop in illegal crossings, though the president’s political opponents question whether this is an appropriate use of the military, and relations with Mexico are at a low. In March, Customs and Border Protection recorded 7,180 — down from 28,654 in February and a peak of 370,883 in December 2023 during the Biden administration….
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Trump on Friday issued a presidential memorandum saying that the “complexity of the current situation” at the southern border requires the military to take a more active role there. He ordered the military to take active control of federal lands there, explicitly mentioning the Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-foot-wide strip of land that spans the border across the base of California, Arizona and New Mexico.
The decision had been anticipated for weeks, with defense officials examining a plan to have active-duty troops hold migrants they encounter who cross the border illegally until law enforcement authorities arrive. Defense officials have said the plan, first reported by The Washington Post in March, would effectively turn a buffer zone at the border into a satellite military base, creating new legal jeopardy for migrants who cross illegally…..
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