Author: Jonn Lilyea

Mick sends a Fox News link which reports that the President threatened to send troops to our border with Mexico until he can get a wall built;

A White House official revealed later Tuesday to Fox News that the plan considered by Trump would be a “substantial” mobilization of the National Guard.

“Until we can have a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military,” he said. “That’s a big step, we really haven’t done that before, or certainly not very much before.”

At a news conference later, he confirmed the plan, saying the border is unprotected by “our horrible, horrible and very unsafe laws.”

“We don’t have laws, we have catch-and-release,” he said. “You catch and then you immediately release and people come back years later for a court case, except they virtually never come back.”

Of course, this isn’t the first time a President has sent troops to secure the border. CNN remembers;

Under President George W. Bush, a border deployment of the National Guard known as Operation Jump Start started in 2006 and lasted two years. The operation sent more than 6,000 troops to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to repair secondary border fence, construct nearly 1,000 metal barriers and fly border protection agents by helicopter to intercept immigrants trying to enter illegally.

In 2010, the Obama administration deployed National Guard troops as part of a border protection plan.

Officials in 2010 said up to 1,200 National Guard troops would be in place along the US-Mexico border for up to a year to assist US Customs and Border Protection with surveillance and intelligence gathering while the agency worked to hire additional staff.

And in 2014, as a surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America crossed into the United States, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced the activation of up to 1,000 National Guard troops to help secure the southern border.

The President is reacting to the swarm of Hondurans marching through Mexico to get to our borders and Mexico doesn’t seem motivated to stop the crowd of more than a thousand, even though Trump has threatened them with the NAFTA negotiations.

According to Reuters a swarm of more than 1200 Central American immigrants are headed to the US border with Mexico in a 2000-mile trek from the Guatemalan frontier. President Trump has warned Mexico to stop the crowd or they’ll suffer in the NAFTA renegotiation. Instead, the Mexicans seem to be helping the crowd;

Local officials have offered lodging in town squares and empty warehouses or arranged transport for the migrants, participants in a journey organized by the immigrant advocacy group Pueblo Sin Fronteras. The officials have conscripted buses, cars, ambulances and police trucks. But the help may not be entirely altruistic.

“The authorities want us to leave their cities,” said Rodrigo Abeja, an organizer from Pueblo Sin Fronteras. “They’ve been helping us, in part to speed the massive group out of their jurisdictions.”

Some of the ambitious marchers plan to apply for asylum in the US while others plan to sneak across the border.

Typically, Central Americans have not fared well with U.S. asylum claims, particularly those from Honduras. A Reuters analysis of immigration court data found that Hondurans who come before the court receive deportation orders in more than 83 percent of cases, the highest rate of any nationality. Hondurans also face deportation in Mexico, where immigration data shows that 5,000 Hondurans were deported from Mexico in February alone, the highest number since May 2016.

Yeah, well, they should stay in their country and work to fix the problems instead of just running away compounding the problems.

One of the immigrants, Maria Elena Colindres Ortega, is a former member of the Honduran legislature. She left when the government wouldn’t pay her, so she left her kids behind and joined the caravan. I guess her kids have their own way of providing for themselves without her. Or she doesn’t care about her kids.