UN Trump threatens to close US-Mexico border - Left triggered again by thing Orange man says but cannot do

In response to another migrant caravan, Trump has said he may scrap the mexico deal, and use the US military to close the southern border. Of course, he can't do that. To deploy active duty soldiers for civilian law enforcement operations (which border control is) requires congressional authorization. Past presidents have skirted this by using the Guard in coordination with the local States, but considering the size of the border physically closing it will require the active Army. File this under either pre-midterm posturing or random Trump spastic moment.

Course, this is lost on people who are predictably freaking out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...91fcead2ab1_story.html?utm_term=.193d0a620f08

Trump threatens to summon military to close U.S.-Mexico border, upend trade deal in response to migrant caravan

President Trump threatened Thursday to summon the military to close the U.S.-Mexico border and upend a trade deal, expressing mounting frustration with a large caravan of migrants from Honduras that has been making its way toward the United States.

In morning tweets, Trump repeated vows to halt U.S. aid to Central American countries that do not disband the caravan and issued a fresh threat to the Mexican government, which said Wednesday that it would treat those in the caravan no differently than it does other migrants.

“In addition to stopping all payments to these countries, which seem to have almost no control over their population, I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!” Trump said in one tweet.

In another, he suggested that the “onslaught” of immigrants could undermine a recently announced reworked trade deal with Mexico and Canada, writing that immigration is “far more important to me, as President, than Trade.”

The new deal, which replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement, has yet to be signed by the three countries. Congress is not expected to ratify it before next year.

His comments come as Trump has been urging fellow Republicans to make immigration a central issue in the closing weeks of their midterm election campaigns and blaming Democrats for his failure to pass immigration legislation in the GOP-controlled Congress.

“All Democrats fault for weak laws!” Trump said in one tweet Thursday.

The issue of immigration is certain to be on the agenda Friday when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Trump’s frustration appears to stem in part from record levels of migrant parents entering the United States with children in the three months since his administration ended family separations at the border.

 

[RG 448]

When defending your own borders isn’t a military duty something has gone horribly wrong.

 

[Übertroon]

The final phase of manifest destiny begins

 

[ForTheHoard]

I smell a veterans job program.

 

[ZehnBoat]

and use the US military to close the southern border.

and by that he means post a handful of people at the roads that crossover, and illegals will still get in thus rendering it null and void.

 

[CWCchange]

At this point, Trump has more control over immigration in Mexico and Central America than within our own borders.

Fuck.

 

[Otis Boi]

I never understood how any one could defend random people just coming into your country in large groups. Imagine if all the pot smokers made a caravan to migrate to Canada I'm pretty sure they would get kicked out with out so much as a whisper .

 

[SuperDeeDuper]

When defending your own borders isn’t a military duty something has gone horribly wrong.

yes, it's called upside down bizarro clown world

 

[SiccDicc]

SAMs on the border and jets in our airfields to take out smugglers in the air, Marines rooting out the tunnels, submarines waiting at our ports and SEALs to guard our rivers. The army just standing there looking pretty.

Sounds expensive. What about Canada?

 

[Shokew]

I would love just to see a little common sense toward resolving this BS. Because we really do need to keep these sons-of-bitches out, quite fucking honestly.
To be fair, this isn't really a military-grade job, as awesome as that sounds for keeping things at bay in some young child's head.

 

[ES 148]

Smugglers will always find a way to get in. It's rooting them out while in-country that should be focused on.
Note my only knowledge of smuggling comes from space simulators

 

[mindlessobserver]

No borders, no walls, no USA at all.

People in support of mass migration essentially believe that we are all one human people, so why should people seeking a better life not be allowed to come here where it is so much better. The idea that the nation state is an effort by the people WITHIN that nation to improve on it and pass it on to their descendants (and not random people) is lost on them entirely. Which is why there is often a correlation between childlessness and supporting mass migration.

 

[Bassomatic]

I would love just to see a little common sense toward resolving this BS. Because we really do need to keep these sons-of-bitches out, quite fucking honestly.
To be fair, this isn't really a military-grade job, as awesome as that sounds for keeping things at bay in some young child's head.

Borders are a mil issue, and as mentioned before vet job program.

I'd love to see human traffic ended by the poor vets we throw to the wolves. The left rather someone go to Iraq come back and blow their brains out and a few slaves drug to the country, because BAD ORANGE MAN.

And some how we are the inhumane ones?

 

[Meat Poultry Veg]

Which is why there is often a correlation between childlessness and supporting mass migration.

That, and because the robo-technocratic nanny state hasn't developed to the point of obsoleting human beings.

When you're old, childless and helpless, any able bodied person is essentially fungible. The problem is the able bodied person doesn't share this outlook.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

No borders, no walls, no USA at all.

People in support of mass migration essentially believe that we are all one human people, so why should people seeking a better life not be allowed to come here where it is so much better. The idea that the nation state is an effort by the people WITHIN that nation to improve on it and pass it on to their descendants (and not random people) is lost on them entirely. Which is why there is often a correlation between childlessness and supporting mass migration.

"I want your toy! WHY WON'T YOU SHARE?!?!?"

 

[Edgeworth]

He... KIND of has a point though; if Mexico and Canada are butthurt about the US wanting to control its immigration/border problems, why don't they just trade by boat like the good ol' days? Sure, that's less... practical(?) but as far as I know, Canada doesn't have the illegal immigration problem the US does.

I know, I know, trading by boat when there's a perfectly good country sandwiched between the two trading countries to let in trade caravans and illegals and stuff is INCONVENIENT.

 

[TowinKarz]

"I want your toy! WHY WON'T YOU SHARE?!‽?"

Also, the last time I "shared" you refused to give it back because I "can afford to get another" , and when you finaly did return it 2 years later, it was chipped, broken, and you only gave it back because now we're "even" and you want my new one or you'll whine to my Mom that im being "mean"

P.S.- I hate kids, wont ever have any and even I can see open borders are stupid.

 

[Bassomatic]

That, and because the robo-technocratic nanny state hasn't developed to the point of obsoleting human beings.

When you're old, childless and helpless, any able bodied person is essentially fungible. The problem is the able bodied person doesn't share this outlook.

It's almost like the past 50 years we've taken policy to destroy the middle class, and American families (we did practice and perfect on the blacks though heaven forbid they get a head like they did in the 20s.) All to make sure, people who rely on the state out pace people whom don't.

Single moms are just as guilty of voting for the state and can't/won't be taken care of by family due to the vast amount of stat proving single parents well suck at parenting.

 

[Krispum Western Chumbler]

This would be the most MAGA shit ever!

 

[Stab You in the Back]

as far as I know, Canada doesn't have the illegal immigration problem the US does.

After Trump's election, tens of thousands of Haitians and Hondurans were crossing the border seeking refugee status in Canada. Not as bad as what we get from Mexico, but considering how weak Canada's infrastructure is, it created a small crisis in accommodations that persists even today.