WASHINGTON — More than four months after active-duty troops deployed to southern U.S. states for border security support, congressional Democrats remain unconvinced their presence is needed there.
“Border security is important, but we have other needs in the world,” said House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., during a hearing on the topic Tuesday morning. “We also have ISIS and Syria and Russia and China … (The southern border) is not primary to the military’s mission.”
The border support mission, which began shortly before the midterm elections, has been attacked by critics for months as President Donald Trump politicizing both the immigration debate and military personnel.
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Because that's what the Boss wants, period.
ReplyDeleteThey're there because there's no wall.
ReplyDeleteIs it really that hard to figure out dems ?
The military is there because the American people have voted for them to be there. Securing the border was one of the 3 main issues in the last presidential election. Get over it democrats, you lost that election.
ReplyDeleteIdiot the US is being invaded.
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