EXCLUSIVE Bolton Kept DHS in the Dark in His Push to Seal the Border Against the Migrant Caravan
Source: The Daily Beast
Trump’s national security adviser iced out Homeland Security and the Pentagon as he ‘yelled fire in the crowded movie theater that is Trump’s mind,’ an official says.
Asawin Suebsaeng,
Kimberly Dozier,
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10.26.18 3:43 PM ET
National Security Adviser John Bolton championed a plan to send U.S. troops to the southern border to keep migrants out, two senior administration officials told The Daily Beast.
After rejecting a proposal by the Department of Homeland Security to enlist the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to set up migrant camps in Mexico, Bolton shared his thoughts directly with a like-minded Donald Trump, cutting out Homeland Security Chief Kirstjen Nielsen and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, those officials tell The Daily Beast.
“Senior officials in the administration are concerned that the president is frustrated that we don’t have a viable solution at the border,” a third official said, in defense of Bolton. Bolton shared few details about his talks with Trump with White House officials or cabinet secretaries, according to two officials.
The third official insisted Bolton did not come up with the military plan on his own, but was executing the commander in chief’s wishes, which the president expressed last week in a tweet threatening to “call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!”
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/bolton-kept-dhs-in-the-dark-in-his-push-to-seal-the-border-against-the-migrant-caravan?ref=home
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by Diana Stancy Correll
| October 25, 2018 11:07 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kirstjen-nielsen-us-isnt-planning-right-now-to-shoot-at-caravan-migrants
The U.S. military, which is poised to send additional troops to the Southern border, is not planning to shoot at migrants caravaning from Central America if they enter the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in an interview that aired Thursday.
“We do not have any intention right now to shoot at people, but they will be apprehended, however,” Nielsen said during an interview with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum. “But I also take my officer and agent, their own person safety, extraordinarily seriously. They do have the ability of force to defend themselves.”
The government will “have to work through” whether troops will be allowed to shoot back if migrants open fire first.
Good grief. These people project all the time, don't they?
