Trump's political-posturing-play totally, as the four present caravans in toto represent just a few days of US-Mexico border normalcy.
"Veterans slam Trump for border 'stunt' [...] "There are laws, there are regulations about how the military can and should be used," the official said. "As somebody that deployed and said good bye to my wife and kids multiple times, you want to be confident about the mission. Sending military troops to the border to defend against unarmed civilians is just nonsense.""
No buses for now, weary caravan migrants set to resume march
SONIA PEREZ D.Associated Press Oct 31, 2018 Updated 20 hrs ago
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The caravans combined represent just a few days' worth of the average flow of migrants to the United States in recent years. Similar caravans have occurred regularly over the years and passed largely unnoticed, but U.S. President Donald Trump has seized on them to try to make border security a hot-button issue less than a week before midterm elections.
Ex-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: Trump sending troops to border is 'folly'
By Caroline Kelly, CNN
Updated 8:41 PM ET, Thu November 1, 2018
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(CNN)Former Obama-era Secretary of Defense and Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel on Thursday blasted President Donald Trump's decision to move thousands of US troops to the southern border.
"This is folly. This is political distraction of the highest magnitude," Hagel told CNN's Jake Tapper on "Erin Burnett OutFront."
Hagel lambasted Trump's decision "taking thousands of American troops who are trained on the cutting edge all the time, and sending them down to a border where there is no need, no threat to an invasion of the hordes coming in from Latin America, which is a joke."
Hagel also cited the restrictions on military personnel at the border.
"They are of limited utility anyway because of the constitutional issues involved here as to what our active military can and cannot do," he added.
Federal law .. https://goo.gl/hdNbTU .. forbids "direct participation by a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps in a search, seizure, arrest or other similar activity unless participation in such activity by such member is otherwise authorized by law."
Trump is "using our military and our troops in a very political way that ... really casts a lot questions about the competency of his leadership," Hagel said, adding that his own military service during the Vietnam War familiarized him with the hardship of the armed services.
"I know the kinds of sacrifices these men and women are involved with every day, and their families," Hagel said. "To use them as political pawns like this for a complete fabrication is really wrong."
Tapper also asked Hagel his thoughts on Trump's message to troops headed to the border that if migrants throw rocks at them, to "consider it a rifle."
Hagel said he felt "disgust."
"That's a wanton incitement of unnecessary violence," Hagel said. "It's a distraction, it's a distortion, it is of rank political purpose to use our military like this."
"Not in my lifetime have I ever heard those kinds of words from a president of the United States," he added.
Judge bars enforcement of new Trump restrictions on asylum seekers
November 20, 2018, 2:11 AM
HOUSTON -- A federal judge barred the Trump administration Monday from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally.
U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar issued a temporary restraining order after hearing arguments in San Francisco. He acted on a request made by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights, which quickly sued after President Trump issued the ban this month in response to the caravans of migrants that have started to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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