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Biden administration asks Pentagon to send military to border

Posted on 9/21/21 at 3:47 am
Posted by Jack Carter
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Posted on 9/21/21 at 3:47 am
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-administration-asks-pentagon-to-send-military-to-border


Biden administration asks Pentagon to send military to border


DEL RIO, Texas — The Biden administration has requested the Pentagon send the military to the southern border to help regain control after thousands of Haitian migrants swarmed over the Rio Grande into Texas.

The admission was the first time Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has confirmed DHS is seeking the Pentagon's help. It comes amid a crisis in south-central Texas, where at least 15,000 migrants illegally crossed by the Del Rio-Acuna International Bridge late last week.

"The approach has been an all-of-federal-government effort and, frankly, an all-of-federal-government effort in partnership with state and local authorities in the civil society. And the Department of Defense is evaluating a request for assistance, and we hope that will come to fruition very shortly," Mayorkas said during a press conference Monday afternoon after touring the area.

A Pentagon spokesman said on Monday the DHS had requested help specifically with transporting migrants from the border to its holding facilities. A Defense Department spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.
Posted by Jack Carter
Member since Sep 2018
12200 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 3:47 am to
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an all-of-federal-government effort in partnership with state and local authorities


bullshite. The local authorities just stepped up and flooded the border and now you’re scrambling to save face
This post was edited on 9/21/21 at 3:49 am
Posted by DMAN1968
Member since Apr 2019
12586 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 4:40 am to
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we hope that will come to fruition very shortly



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DHS had requested help specifically with transporting migrants from the border to its holding facilities

Screw this.
This post was edited on 9/21/21 at 4:42 am
Posted by greygoose
Member since Aug 2013
14228 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 5:03 am to
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Biden administration asks Pentagon to send military to border

Since when does the Commander in Chief ask the Pentagon to do anything?
Posted by mightyMick
Member since Aug 2018
3067 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 5:13 am to
President Trump had this under control and the dumbass biden and his band of leftists idiots stopped President Trump's policies and started tearing down portions of the wall. All this leftists talk of open borders and reversing President Trump's policies invited the unwashed hoards to illegally enter our country. Isn't this what the leftists wanted? Why do anything now? Were they actually so stupid that they couldn't understand what was going to happen?
Posted by greygoose
Member since Aug 2013
14228 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 5:38 am to
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President Trump had this under control and the dumbass biden and his band of leftists idiots stopped President Trump's policies and started tearing down portions of the wall. All this leftists talk of open borders and reversing President Trump's policies invited the unwashed hoards to illegally enter our country. Isn't this what the leftists wanted? Why do anything now? Were they actually so stupid that they couldn't understand what was going to happen?
This is what they wanted. Flood the country with illegals, get cheap labor, eventual amnesty with citizenship, and of course their votes. Give them just enough "free money" to make them a slave to the party. They are just following LBJ's playbook, but now have to import the "downtrodden".
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
42361 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 5:40 am to
So it’s no longer the Biden- Harris administration?

Posted by Smokeyone
Maryville Tn
Member since Jul 2016
20923 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 5:43 am to
So to protect them from law enforcement
Posted by BobABooey
Parts Unknown
Member since Oct 2004
15924 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 5:48 am to
This story reads like a well-written joke. The part about helping with the transportation is an unexpected punchline like Norm would have told.

It’s sad, really.
Posted by Plx1776
Member since Oct 2017
18137 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 5:57 am to
It sounds like they are going to condemn border patrol and local authorities for mistreating poor illegals.

That's the only thing I can think of..that would make this regime send military to the border. To give safe passage to the illegals.
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
22908 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 6:10 am to
Anyone with a brain could have seen this coming and would have a plan to deal with it.
Posted by Beast Rabban
Giedi Prime
Member since Aug 2004
255 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 6:30 am to
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Since when does the Commander in Chief ask the Pentagon to do anything?



When you aren't the president ??
Posted by jeffsdad
Member since Mar 2007
24085 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 6:30 am to
Pedo joe, not biden
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
62001 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 6:32 am to
Who knew that inviting the worlds impoverished hordes to come in and get free stuff would have been taken up by so many people?!
Posted by loogaroo
Welsh
Member since Dec 2005
39515 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 6:32 am to
Kinda funny he did this after the parliamentarian killed his amnesty ploy.
Posted by jp4lsu
Member since Sep 2016
6322 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 6:33 am to
I'm sure there is some saving face involved, but I bet a lot of it is to control the narrative and get Texas and CBP out of the way in exposing this. If the military is down there they can control information and pictures. Plus the WH gets to look like they are addressing and handling the problem.

Also, why all of a sudden are they finally doing something on the border when the blacks show up by the thousands? This seems racists.
Posted by dakarx
Member since Sep 2018
8163 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 6:33 am to
2 years ago, sending troops to the border was provoking a war with Mexico.
Posted by coolpapaboze
Parts Unknown
Member since Dec 2006
20675 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 6:34 am to
I was kind of expecting the story to be about the Corps of Engineers going down there to build bridges across the Rio Grande to facilitate more rapid border crossings for illegals.
Posted by puse01
Member since Sep 2011
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Posted on 9/21/21 at 6:39 am to
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This post was edited on 11/15/21 at 12:55 pm
Posted by RockyMtnTigerWDE
War Damn Eagle Dad!
Member since Oct 2010
108134 posts
Posted on 9/21/21 at 6:57 am to
Didn’t Trump get skewered for sending troops down to the border?
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