Trump just made an announcement that he calls a ‘big step’, and it’s to put our military on the southern border to protect and guard it:
NEW: Pres. Trump: "Until we can have a wall and proper security, we're going to be guarding our border with the military.
— ABC News (@ABC) April 3, 2018
"That's a big step. We really haven't done that before." https://t.co/FDA3ditQ74 pic.twitter.com/MabkFzfYW9
Here’s the longer explanation…
President Trump says U.S. will guard border with Mexico "militarily" until U.S. has "a wall and proper security" https://t.co/P5mVwesbqI pic.twitter.com/AM0w9HnL47
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 3, 2018
Well this should be interesting.
And he said it with Mattis sitting right there beside him, so unless we hear something different it appears he has the backing of Mattis to do this.