Marines Lay Miles Of Concertina Wire Along Southern Border In San Diego

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KPBS
Article date: 
19 November 2018
Article category: 
National News
Tags: 
border
enforcement
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... At the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility, Marines are topping the existing border wall with another two rows of concertina wire. The Marines are mainly engineers. ...

... most of the 1,100 Marines are building barriers. That includes the busy San Ysidro Port of Entry, where Marines put in place concrete barriers topped with rows of concertina wire, and to close three vehicle lanes. Drivers in line said the narrowed entry created a backup that was more than 2 hours long late Friday morning.
 
Approximately 5,900 troops have been deployed along the southern border, including 2,800 in Texas, more than 1,500 in Arizona and a total of 1,500 troops in California, according to U.S. Northern Command said. The operation is scheduled to go until Dec. 15.
 
 

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Photo of San Diego border fence, by Donald J. Trump, November 19, 2018.

The Fake News is showing old footage of people climbing over our Ocean Area Fence. This is what it really looks like - no climbers anymore under our Administration!
 

barbed wire on border November 19, 2018

 

 

Trump expected to give troops authority to protect border personnel, CNN, November 19, 2018:

President Donald Trump is expected to grant new authority to US troops on the Southwest border with Mexico to protect Customs and Border Protection personnel from migrants if they engage in violence, according to two defense officials and another US official directly familiar with the plans. An additional administration official tells CNN that the authority will also authorize protection of federal property.

 
Currently troops do not have any authorities that would allow them to intervene if CBP personnel came under attack unless they need to act in their own self-defense.
 
There are 5,800 to 5,900 troops assigned to the border mission....

 

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