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Sooo...

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... ern-border

Trump is talking to Mattis and plans are being drawn up to deploy US military forces on the US/Mexico border. This reminds me of Bush when the National Guard was deployed on the border but those guys turned out to be primarily there for support - tech and monitoring mostly (as far as I can remember). This sounds like Trump is going to deploy the 101st airborne on the US/Mexico border....

That's....weird. Also, probably expensive. Do you guys think this is a good/sound idea? What would you do in its place?

Not weird at all. His supporters won't even be able to stand up with erections like that. The 101st being debased as shitty border patrol? What's not to like? trump get's to play tough guy protecting us from brown people. Watch his ratings go up.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boder

A person from Memphis, Missouri that is considered an outcast or a misfit. Usally someone who doesn't shower and smells really bad. Boders usually define anyone active as a "prep" at our school.

The people who sit in the commons before school starts are such boders.

They'll all just roll over. Pussies. To be fair though...what can they do? trump wants to use the airborne to round up refugees, and there's nobody who can stop him. He also wants some bizarro anachronistic military parade, as if such banana republic antics have any place in the 21st century, at least outside of Korea or the hollow ruins of the USSR. It's plain to see exactly which sort of idiot he's playing to.

the military can't do anything at the border as far as i know since they can't act as domestic law enforcement.

Its permitted in support roles. Not direct enforcement.

This is a bone to his base and no big deal IMO.

He certainly does suck as speaking.

“Some of it is just the guy at the end of the bar yelling his opinions — his gut reaction is to say we’ve got to send the military,” said Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates slashing immigration levels. “But there may also be an element here of political messaging, and a desire to create problems in November for Democratic candidates who have refused to embrace his policies.”

Thanks, Republicans.