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2025-01-23 -Land of the Free

Pentagon sending additional 1,500 troops to southern border: US official

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-23 01:05|| || Front Page|| [11170 views ] Top
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#1 What's the ROE?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-01-23 01:39|| 2025-01-23 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Too much drug and human smuggling money involved. The problem will likely NOT be resolved withoiut cross-border combat operations.

Gone on far too long. Welcome to the new Afghanistan.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-23 03:39|| 2025-01-23 03:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Good hunting and God speed.

Posted by hyper 2025-01-23 08:00|| 2025-01-23 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Why do you think so many forts are along the southern border? We were dealing with another 'invasion' from Mexico.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-23 08:36|| 2025-01-23 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Grom — the ROE:

Unlike previous border missions, the 500 Marines being sent will be armed and have magazines in their weapons. The Marines are also treating this deployment like any other emergency contingency, a senior Marine official told Fox News.

"Our response will be immediate. We are going in ready to respond. If the cartels shoot at us, we will not stand by," the Marine official told Fox News Chief National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin. "We will be taking whatever equipment we would send if a Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, were deploying overseas."

The first wave of 1,000 Army soldiers and 500 Marines will not be engaged in law enforcement, but the rules of engagement will allow for self-defense.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-23 08:57|| 2025-01-23 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 If the cartels are now classified as international terrorist organizations that does a couple of things -

1 - aiding and abetting touches the definition of aiding the enemy during time of war, thus treason.
2 - enforcement is no longer along the lines of domestic police work, opening operations outside the limits of Posse Commitatus.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-23 09:28|| 2025-01-23 09:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Trump gives radical new powers to federal agents to form mass deportation strike force as illegals are already being rounded up

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-23 10:24|| 2025-01-23 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Saw something about the military to provide air lift support.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-23 16:47|| 2025-01-23 16:47|| Front Page Top

#9 If the cartels shoot at us, we will not stand by

Yeah the Marines get annoyed when shot at. They'll certainly shot back, fairly accurately I might say, and they might even hunt the shooter(s) down just for fun.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-01-23 18:37|| 2025-01-23 18:37|| Front Page Top

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