Deployed to sit around and do nothing except play pinochle and waste taxpayer dollars. Like Republicans!
Our Border is Sacred? Huh. Maybe these folks are just making a pilgrimage there?
I think Donny is missing an opportunity. He could be setting up a bunch of Trump Brand Gift Shops ® and sell bricks for The Wall.®
Pffftt!
Using our military for buffoonish political stunts like this is one of the signs of our democracy slipping away from us. Just saying.
They’re not your toy soldiers, cap’n bonespur. This is transparent bullshit. What’s horrifying is that it may work.
The troops are a distraction. He caravan is a distraction. Trump is using them to control the news reporting for the next week.
Ask what he’s doing about the hurricanes that bring real destruction across our borders.
Ask why he is working with GOP governors and legislatures to take health insurance away from children and parents with preexisting conditions.
He has to have his parade!
REPUGS YOU BUILT THIS
- As the nation’s attention turns back to the fractured debate over immigration, it might be helpful to remember that in 1986, Ronald Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform bill into law. It was sold as a crackdown: There would be tighter security at the Mexican border, and employers would face strict penalties for hiring undocumented workers.
But the bill also made any immigrant who’d entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty – a word not usually associated with the father of modern conservatism.
2)Ronald Reagan’s efforts to eradicate Communism spanned the globe, but the insurgent Contras’ cause in Nicaragua was particularly dear to him. Battling the Cuban-backed Sandinistas, the Contras were, according to Reagan, “the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers.” Under the so-called Reagan Doctrine, the CIA trained and assisted this and other anti-Communist insurgencies worldwide.
Assisting involved supplying financial support, a difficult task politically after the Democratic sweep of congressional elections in November 1982. First Democrats passed the Boland Amendment, which restricted CIA and Department of Defense operations in Nicaragua specifically; in 1984, a strengthened Boland Amendment made support almost impossible.
A determined, unyielding Reagan told National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, “I want you to do whatever you have to do to help these people keep body and soul together.”
- A 1986 investigation by a sub-committee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (the Kerry Committee), found that “the Contra drug links included”, amongst other connections, “[…] payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies.”
CIA involvement in trafficking is usually alleged to be connected to the Contra war in Nicaragua during the Reagan Administration, which acknowledged in 1986 that funds from cocaine smuggling had helped fund the Contra rebels
Posted this elsewhere, not nice to see some right wing sites having have way rational articles.
More like cervezas, tequila and senoritas I’m guessing.