The Pentagon Should Build the Wall
Article publisher:
American Greatness
Article date:
27 June 2018
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
legal immigration into the United States is surging yet again. In response, the Trump Administration in April enacted a controversial “zero-tolerance” policy to prosecute anyone caught crossing the border unlawfully. ...
But what’s truly remarkable about the Pentagon’s effort to house illegal aliens on its bases is how the military has just assumed this bizarre role in the nation’s border security. For decades, immigration activists and lawmakers from both parties have argued that the armed services should play no role in our immigration policy—no troops on the border, no warplanes patrolling the skies. This strange view about the Pentagon’s non-role in border security is so pervasive that the Republicans had to sneak in a rule in the last ridiculous government spending bill that tricked the Pentagon into using some of its massive budget to pay for border defense.
Why is it acceptable for the Pentagon to bring its $700 billion annual budget to assist in the housing of illegal immigrants, rather than just to defend the country by allocating resources to both build a border wall and to send forces to the border? ...
The moment the Pentagon announced it would use military bases for the construction of unlicensed illegal immigration facilities, Trump should have ordered Defense Secretary James Mattis to begin building a wall. Congress clearly won’t do it ...