I wonder how many folks are gonna shoot kids. Not talk about it but do it.
And the last time we bent the tribes over they hadn't figured out to send their kids to law school. It won't be as easy this time. No gatling guns and cannons against bows and rifles.its gonna be lawyer vs lawyer
You're missing the point. The point I always make when we talk about sending troops to the border. It's a binary solution set.
Either there's the political will in this country to let the.mil actually close the border. That means marshal law in the border region and a bunch of dead Central Americans.
Or there's not the will. In which case you are wasting time and money with troops doing things that could be accomplished cheaper and easier with cops, farmers, volunteers, or hell migrant workers hired from Home Depot's parking lot.
If the political will exists, the exercise is trivially easy. All the wailing of "borders are hard to close" is BS. Just do it. Let the lawyers sue. What are they going to do? Even if they get an injunction before the borders sealed, which is unlikely, who will enforce it?
If the will doesn't exist (and it currently, emphatically does not) then quit crying about "sending the troops" and quit deploying guardsman who have probably already spent plenty of time away from home in a desert.
I wonder how many folks are gonna shoot kids.
What part of "mine field" did you not understand? There are no kids anywhere nearby when you fly and/or drive the vehicle by. And there'd probably be plenty if you wanted to mount an AC-130 or Stryker over watch. There always seems to be enough.
Read what I'm saying. All this political rhetoric about "sending troops to the border" is dangerous not because it's hard to close the border with a military, but precisely because it's not hard. It's just costly. And one day soon, mark my words, someone's going to give it a shot.