More Troops To Be
Deployed To Southern US Border; Will Build 160 Miles Of Fencing, by Tyler
Durden, 1/3/19, Zerohedge.com.
More US
troops will be deployed to the Southern border to "construct or upgrade" 160 miles of fencing, as well as
provide medical care to thousands of migrants arriving from Central America,
reports NPR, citing military sources.
The
Pentagon will foot the bill out of its discretionary funding for the
deployment and fence construction along the California and Arizona borders with
Mexico.
Word of
the deployment comes amid a heated battle over $5 billion in funding
President Trump has demanded for a southern border wall, which is currently at
the center of a partial government shutdown.
The move comes as President Trump continues to demand $5 billion from
Congress for border security and a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Congressional Democrats oppose the move, and parts of the federal government
have been shut down because of the impasse.
The Department of Defense has not been affected by the shutdown. -NPR
Comments
This has not been
covered in the media, but it makes the most sense. Border control is the job of
National Defense. All other military
expenditures have been Military Foreign Aid, not defense.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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