President Trump will sign a proclamation today for the deployment of National Guard troops along the southern border with Mexico in a bid to cut down on illegal immigration, although most experts say the majority of illegal immigrants come to the United States legally, but stay past their visa expiration. Kirstjen Nielsen, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said “The president has directed that the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to work together with our governors to deploy our National Guard to our southwest border to assist the border patrol.” The cost of the deployment was not corroborated with the secretary, but similar deployments have cost U.S. taxpayers north of seven digits. The DHS secretary did not specify how many troops would be deployed, but said they would serve similar functions as when they were dispatched to the border by past administrations, including assisting in aerial surveillance and providing support functions to current patrol officials. Yesterday the President made clear his plans to use the military in securing the southern boarder saying,“I told Mexico, and I respect what they did, I said, look, your laws are very powerful, your laws are very strong. We have very bad laws for our border and we are going to be doing some things, I spoke with Defense Secretary James Mattis, we’re going to do some things militarily. Until we can have a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military. That’s a big step. We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally, disappearing, and by the way never showing up for court.”
A few weeks ago the President signed a $1.3 trillion omnibus bill after threatening a veto. Although the budget for the Armed Forces was increased, the President only got $1.2 billion for his campaign promise to build a wall on the southern border. At the signing the President said, ” “I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again. There are a lot of things that I’m unhappy about in this bill.” The President had requested $25 billion for starting the wall construction. The Mexican ambassador to the US said that President Donald Trump’s apparent call for the US military to guard the US-Mexico border is an unwelcome one. The ambassador stressed that his government is still trying to clarify what exactly Trump meant, adding, “A relation like the one between Mexico and the United States needs to have spaces in order to agree to disagree. The issue of the wall is certainly one of them, and as my government has clearly expressed already, Mexico by no means would be paying for a wall.”
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