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Pentagon OKs sending 2,100 additional troops to Mexico border

The Trump administration is beefing up troop levels at the U.S.-Mexico border, with the new acting defense secretary, Richard Spencer, on Tuesday approving a Department of Homeland Security request for an additional 2,100.

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The Trump administration is beefing up troop levels at the U.S.-Mexico border, with the new acting defense secretary, Richard Spencer, on Tuesday approving a Department of Homeland Security request for an additional 2,100.

The Department of Defense announced the move on Wednesday; the troops will join 4,500 others at the border.

About 1,100 newly deployed active-duty troops will assist with logistical support and aerial surveillance at ports of entry and airports in Texas, according to reports by Politico.

And 1,000 Texas National Guard members, overseen by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, will provide supplemental help to Customs and Border Protection staff to oversee two temporary migrant holding facilities.

The move comes as Democratic lawmakers have ratcheted up criticisms of conditions at the border, assailing the treatment of migrants and refusing to provide additional funding for a border wall.

For his part, President Trump has toughened up the rules for asylum seekers, the majority from Central America, by rolling out a new policy Monday that requires migrants to first seek asylum in another country on their journey to the U.S. before reaching an American port of entry.

In late June, Congress approved a $4.6 billion humanitarian aid package to provide additional resources for migrants coming across the border.

The new Defense Secretary is a temp brought in from the Navy. It's not the faggot white nationalist Richard Spencer. Just a coincidence.
If anyone wants to fuck with dumbshit twittertards, I'm sure they'd believe Trump actually appointed the ethnosperg without much effort. Photoshop is a useful tool, I hear.

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Richard Spencer becomes acting defense secretary while Mark Esper goes through Senate confirmation

Richard Spencer is a Marine Corps veteran who flew CH-53 helicopters. He left the Corps as a captain.

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Richard Spencer becomes acting defense secretary while Mark Esper goes through Senate confirmation
JEFF SCHOGOL
July 15, 2019 at 03:55 PM

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer took the reins at the Pentagon on Monday, becoming the third acting defense secretary since January.

Spencer is expected to temporarily lead the Pentagon while the Senate considers Army Secretary Mark Esper's nomination to succeed James Mattis as defense secretary. The Senate officially received Esper's nomination on Monday.

"The senior team supporting the Office of the Secretary remains in place to ensure institutional continuity," Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement on Monday. "Notably, this includes David Norquist, the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, who continues to perform the duties of the Deputy Secretary of Defense; the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford; and Eric Chewning, the Chief of Staff for the Department of Defense.

"Additionally, Thomas Modly, Under Secretary of the Navy, is now performing the duties of the Secretary of the Navy. Ryan McCarthy is no longer performing the duties of the Secretary of the Army and is solely serving as Under Secretary of the Army."

Esper had been serving as acting defense secretary since June 24, but the Federal Vacancies Reform Act prevents him from continuing in an acting role once the Senate has received his nomination. For the time-being, he has reverted back to his old job as Army secretary.

On Monday, Spencer walked into the defense' secretary's E-Ring office on the Pentagon's third floor on Monday.

"Ladies and gentleman, how are we doing today?" Spencer asked reporters on the scene.

Before becoming Navy secretary on Aug. 3, 2017, Spencer served as an CH-46 helicopter pilot in the Marine Corps from 1976 until 1981, leaving the Corps as a captain, officials said.


During his tenure leading the Navy, Spencer denied claims from people claiming they were exposed to dangerous chemicals found in the drinking water at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, following a federal judge's December 2016 ruling that the Navy was not liable for damages.

Spencer has also staked his job on fixing the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford's electromagnetic weapons elevators. In January, Spencer told President Donald Trump that if all 11 of the Ford's elevators were not working by the end of the summer, Trump could fire him.

Only two of the Ford's weapons elevators are currently functional, said Navy spokesman Capt. Danny Hernandez. Work on the other nine elevators is expected to last beyond October, when the aircraft carrier leaves the shipyards.

Esper's confirmation hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. He replaced Patrick Shanahan as acting defense secretary after Shanahan withdrew from consideration as defense secretary amid media reports that he and his son had both been involved in violent altercations with his former wife.

Shanahan had served as acting defense secretary after Mattis resigned in December in protest of Trump's decision at the time to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria. Trump subsequently reversed himself.

 

[A shitty ass clover]

It's Richard Spencer, Not that one.

 

[ICametoLurk]

It's Richard Spencer, Not that one.

The other one was on CNN recently so news has *two* Richard Spencers.

 

[Takodachi]

Imagine having the same name as a lolcow.
I would ether change it asap or kms tbh

 

[The Great Chandler]

The Chad Richard Spencer

 

[Un Platano]

Imagine having the same name as a lolcow.
I would ether change it asap or kms tbh

But it all becomes so worth it when you get a high-ranking job in the Pentagon and trick everyone into thinking that a lolcow is now in command of the military.

 

[Sped Xing]

To be fair, Richard Spencer likes concentration camps as well.

 

[pwnest injun]

The Chad Richard Spencer

Dick Spencer.

 

[TheAmazingZander]

I kinda just wish we'd annex Mexico at this point. We could wipe out the cartels, bring the mexican people more freedoms, and actually have them pay taxes for all the gimmiedats they want.

 

[wateryketchup]

Genuine question, what do the troops actually do? Do they act as Border Patrol or are they just there to intimidate fence hoppers?

 

[pwnest injun]

They generally handle logistical things, like setting up temporary holding facilities.

 

[PN 801]

I kinda just wish we'd annex Mexico at this point. We could wipe out the cartels, bring the mexican people more freedoms, and actually have them pay taxes for all the gimmiedats they want.

But you get mexicans.

 

[The Great Chandler]

But you get mexicans.

And ignorant blue voters.

 

[Coldgrip]

Can't wait to hear all the hot takes about how this is racist and how we're nazis for keeping poor, uneducated and easily expliotable people out of this fascist, white supremacist, country. Just like how Germany treated the jews in WW2.

And ignorant blue voters.

He already said mexicans.

 

[Troutsmacked]

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Oh hey it's the guy who went on MSNBC and said Trump would never win the presidency because all his supporters are manchild permavirgins who spend all day jacking off to anime. I had assumed he killed himself on election night.

 

[not william stenchever]

I kinda just wish we'd annex Mexico at this point. We could wipe out the cartels, bring the mexican people more freedoms, and actually have them pay taxes for all the gimmiedats they want.

But you get mexicans.

And ignorant blue voters.

He already said mexicans.

We give them taxation without representation. Trust me it won't turn into mexicans dumping cocaine into Veracruz harbor and years of guerrilla warfare.

 

[Uranus Pink]

I kinda just wish we'd annex Mexico at this point. We could wipe out the cartels, bring the mexican people more freedoms, and actually have them pay taxes for all the gimmiedats they want.

One of the biggest mistakes the U.S.A. had made was letting Mexicans keep the southern half of Mexico after the U.S.-Mexican War.

 

[PN 801]

We give them taxation without representation. Trust me it won't turn into mexicans dumping cocaine into Veracruz harbor and years of guerrilla warfare.

Yeah pretty sure they'd prefer total dictatorship in a land of prosperity instead of crime ridden corrupt garbage they live in right now. Woop woop.

 

[Sped Xing]

One of the biggest mistakes the U.S.A. had made was letting Mexicans keep the southern half of Mexico after the U.S.-Mexican War.

We just took the parts that had hardly any Mexicans in them. The "Aztlan" idiots don't understand that in 1848, what was Northern Mexico on the map was owned de Facto by Navajo, Hopi, Apache, Comanche, and Texians.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Genuine question, what do the troops actually do? Do they act as Border Patrol or are they just there to intimidate fence hoppers?

They're for the death squads. They go up and down the border and if they see any little kids or women they shoot them with machine guns. Also they make sure no mexicans escape the concentration camps.

At least, that's what the MSM told me.