Plenty of labour available in the camps and prisons.
There are still cotton farms in the south that rely upon enslaved Black workers.
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BOGO at the Tim Hortons in Sarnia?
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If that’s not a euphemism, a small box of raisins.
If that is a euphemism, a whole bunch of angry bees.
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What a sad sick spectacle for all the world to see and just wait until we have large permanent refugee camps at the border. Donald is terrorizing us with this so-called invasion of unarmed desperate refugees. Where are the creative solutions? where are the South American countries that could take in some refugees? Canada? Europe? Maybe Mexico’s offer of asylum was sincere, maybe not, but it seems it was dismissed out of hand (sigh).
Donald looks weak and scared and can only come up with a foolish military solution for political posturing. All he is selling is the same old right wing negativity, fear and hate.
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The soldiers have all been equipped with special alternate uniforms for when they get there:
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This ^ I’m sure someone can produce reliable cost/soldier in garrison or out doing support services.
Doesn’t sound too early. Takes a while to get things there and setup. Test everything works. Practice. Depends on estimated arrival at destination. 4 weeks is my guess via the shortest route, which might not even work for reasons.
'Course, best not to deploy too early, lest George Soros get the word to the caravan to switch destinations.
I am not too concerned if these troops are in full support-only mode. There is going to be a need for support services that the armed forces are best at doing. It’s like… their job.
But I do worry that it’s a rare military that doesn’t let their soldiers, even the supply clerks and bus drivers, have arms and training on how to use them. I just worry that if the migrants start pushing, the “comes to shove” response by armed soldiers could be horrific.
I’d used to think such talk is over-the-top and highly unlikely. I’m only recently coming to understand how lacking Donnie 2 Scoops is. Yes, I’m slow. With him in charge, it will not surprise me to hear something bad happens.
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There’s got to be at least 10 Tim’s in Sarnia… 1500 in a line up. Not sure anyone would notice if it was in the morning. 
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Uhhh. . . my point was that Alex Jones will probably praise Trump for doing something like this, when he was paranoid Obama might do something similar. I wasn’t giving the GOP an out becuase of Alex Jones, I was highlighting the obvious hypocrisy.
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This experiment has been done and failed spectacularly in GA a few years ago. Prisoners, the unemployed, etc were conscripted to work fields that had previously been quite profitably worked by undocumented agricultural workers. The results were so horrifically bad that even the hard core anti-immigration GA legislature repealed their anti-immigrant laws and “allowed” (nudge nudge wink wink) them back in. Yeah, no.
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Oh gosh! Without all those troops, some of those desperate, weak, penniless families might make it over the border and get decently-paid jobs such as making food for white people, and thus improve their families’ lives. The horror!
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It’s just theater. He has no intentions of ramping up the troops at the border anymore than he intends to end birthright citizenship. This is a simple minded cynical ploy to bring out the racist vote. After the 6th I very much doubt we will hear anything about the caravan or birthright citizenship for about 2 years.
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You nailed it! Though 2 of those locations are in Port Huron, so if the line gets too long the US might just see an invasion!
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To be fair, they military doesn’t have a choice in where they’re deployed. It’s not like they are just taking suggestions from the chain of command, and they can decide for themselves - they have to go where they’re ordered to go, or else they can get a court martial.
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They can provide support and logistics, but not do anything involves law enforcement - the US military has regularly been used (primarily the national guard) for that sort of thing. One of my students this semester was on alert in case his unit got activated to help out down in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael.
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Yes. The first airborne were sent in to escort the Little Rock 9 when they desegregated Little Rock High.
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What they don’t know is that we already invaded. There’s about 1 million or so Canadians living in the US right now… and it’ll possibly hit 2 million when the Snowbirds arrive soon. There was a documentary about this in the '80s (“Lorne Greene, Green Card? Coindicidence?”)
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Um no, that’s likely not the case. They’re pay is the same, but that’s not the only cost involved in this whole mess - you’re forgetting things like transport and housing.
It will cost the taxpayers more, but since the defense department’s budget is effectively a black box, we don’t know what the cost will be.
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“Would the owner of the helicopter blocking the drive-through please move their vehicle? Thank you.”
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About the same as it costs for them to sit around doing nothing. Much less than it costs for them to be interfering in some other country’s business overseas.
If that were true then Trump’s soviet-style military parade wouldn’t have had a $97,000,000
price tag, according to the congressional budget office.
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Yes, I think you have the gist of it. If any Republican voter is ever left wondering why we can’t have nice things, remind them that they voted to blow all our tax dollars on military contractors and expensive, pointless deployments.
@DukeTrout: Shhh! Don’t mention how many Timmy’s are in the Detroit metro or we’ll be over-run by soldiers flooding across the Ambassador Bridge.
@jmcgarry: If you’ve not seen it, I recommend viewing Canadian Bacon.
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