Chris0nllyn
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He said the troops would deploy with 22 miles of concertina wire and would have 150 more miles of the razor-sharp material available.
“Sir, I have a question. The wire obstacles that we've implanted along the border... Are we going to be taking those out when we leave?"
"We'll see what the secretary says, okay?" he answered, pointing to Nielsen standing next to him. “Right now, the mission is put them in. ... We’ll let you know.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ill-have-more-troops-along-the-mexican-border“What are the short and the long-term plans of this operation, sir?” asked another young soldier.
"Short term right now, you get the obstacles in so the border patrolmen can do what they gotta do,” Mattis responded.
“Longer term, it's somewhat to be determined,” he said, adding that “if we were in war right now, you'd be asking the same question” and that the mission was a “dynamic, unpredictable kind of thing.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released video on Wednesday showing what appears to be a human smuggler cutting through concertina barbed wire that agents had placed atop the border fence near Yuma just hours before.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...smuggler-cutting-down-wire-border/2006620002/"We put up concertina wire in order to help sturdy the infrastructure that's in the area," Agent Justin Kallinger told The Arizona Republic. "We wanted to show as quick as we put that stuff up, there was a smuggler to cut it down."