Military border mission: Scheduled to end in a month, probably no more troops coming.
Popular in News & Politics
- Elena Kagan Sees Exactly What Samuel Alito Is Doing
- The Real Story of the Glamorous Prosecutor Who Took on Police Violence—and Then Seemed to Implode
- Clarence Thomas Makes a Full-Throated Case for Racial Gerrymandering
- Jamie Raskin Explains What America Could Do to Fix the Supreme Court
The U.S. military’s deployment to the southern border seems to have climaxed, more than a week after the midterm elections and long before the bulk of the Central American migrant caravan is expected to arrive at the U.S. border with Mexico.
The mission once dubbed Operation Faithful Patriot (but not anymore) is scheduled to run for another month, which the commander in charge, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, described as a “hard date.” He also told Reuters that he has no “indications that CBP is going to need us to do our work for longer than that.” He also said that he thought troop levels had reached their peak and that while “we might increase by a hundred here or there,” they probably wouldn’t. About 6,000 troops are deployed at the border in California, Arizona, and Texas.
The military’s role at the border—limited by U.S. law—is not to actually stop or apprehend migrants who are crossing illegally but instead to support border authorities, largely by constructing barriers. While the bulk of the caravan is hundreds of miles to the south, some migrants have arrived in Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, and they intend to try to enter the United States and apply for asylum at a border crossing. Meanwhile, almost half the U.S. troops are 1,500 miles away in Texas.
AdvertisementThe apparent reduced scale of the military’s mission is out of step with the dramatic rhetoric Trump and other Republicans were using to describe the supposed threat from the migrant caravan, especially before the midterm elections last week. When Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visited the troops Wednesday in Texas, Mattis, in response to questions from the assembled troops, could offer little concrete rationale for what they were doing there.
Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement“This is a mission that’s nontraditional because it’s here in our country. Generally, we do homeland security overseas,” Mattis said, according to BuzzFeed News. When asked what the goals of the deployment were, Mattis said, “Short term right now, you get the obstacles in so the border patrolmen can do what they gotta do,” referring to the now-famous concertina wire Trump praised as beautiful. “Longer term, it’s somewhat to be determined.” He did say, echoing the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, that the mission was “absolutely legal.”
The only historical parallel he could identify was when troops were deployed in the United States and then into Mexico itself in 1916 to deal with Pancho Villa, the Mexican revolutionary who controlled vast swathes of Mexican territory and launched raids into the United States.
Tweet Share Share Comment(责任编辑:新闻中心)
-
29 Dive Bars, Saloons, and Taverns Where the Vibe Is Unbeatable
From hand-sculpted ice spheres to baroque cocktails made with everything from olive oil–washed gin t ...[详细] -
来自大山的米香!连山丝苗米参展深圳博览会_南方+_南方plus12月1日至3日,2023全球高端食品及优质农产品深圳)博览会在深圳举行。清远市连山壮族瑶族自治县两家龙头携多款丝苗米亮相参展,向各地消费 ...[详细]
-
雅安日报讯5日,芦山县人民检察院召开全院干警大会,号召全院干警向遭受“8·3”6.5级地震灾害的云南省鲁甸县人民检察院捐款献爱心。芦山县人民检察院干警纷纷献出自己的爱心,最终共筹集捐款54000余元, ...[详细]
-
雅安日报讯17日,市地税局组织8县区地税局和3个直属单位,就党的群众路线教育实践活动、信息化建设、税收征管、税务稽查、干部管理教育、应急信访、网络涉税舆情、纳税服务、违纪案件查处、绩效管理等内容进行集 ...[详细]
-
How to trademark your TikTok phrase and protect your brand
So, you had a video go viral and it had a very specific phrase, like "Hawk Tuah on that thang" or "v ...[详细] -
雅安日报讯“上班前不吃生葱、生蒜等有浓烈异味的食品”成为乡村旅游从业人员的“刚性规定”。18日,记者在汉源县九襄镇三强新村了解到,该村的乡村旅游从业人员因若干新规而使“农旅结合”的乡村旅游更加规范。在 ...[详细]
-
雅安日报讯17日,市地税局组织8县区地税局和3个直属单位,就党的群众路线教育实践活动、信息化建设、税收征管、税务稽查、干部管理教育、应急信访、网络涉税舆情、纳税服务、违纪案件查处、绩效管理等内容进行集 ...[详细]
-
雅安日报讯8月29日,全市干部工作座谈会召开,会议就抓好当前和今后一个时期的干部工作作了安排部署。市委常委、组织部长赖荣出席会议并强调,要统筹抓好优秀年轻干部培养选拔工作和选任制度改革实践探索,为实施 ...[详细]
-
Against All Odds: How Netflix Made It
Home video rentals were already a $16 billion industry when Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph decided ...[详细] -
雅安日报讯“上班前不吃生葱、生蒜等有浓烈异味的食品”成为乡村旅游从业人员的“刚性规定”。18日,记者在汉源县九襄镇三强新村了解到,该村的乡村旅游从业人员因若干新规而使“农旅结合”的乡村旅游更加规范。在 ...[详细]