george w. bush in 2006, they did similar things. the obama administration sent 1200 national guard troops to the southern border to assist border patrol and immigration officials amid concerns about drug trafficking, provided surveillance and reconnaissance. the bush administration launched operation jump-start for engineering road buildings. what the president seemed to be saying is that different, he may be looking at a more aggressivee approach with the national guard perhaps taking on a direct law enforcement role. a senior official is saying the number of national guard troops will be substantial, suggesting a larger number than we have ever seen before.l, we will have to fact-check that and see how it plays out. as you noted, the reaction from mexico, swift and negative.. vicente fox said this is provoking hate and distance between our countries.
where the national guard takes a more direct law enforcement role. plus a senior official is telling us tonight the number of national guard troops will be substantial, suggesting a larger number than ever before. i told mexico, i respect what they did, i said, look, your loss a very powerful, your law is a very strong. we have very bad laws for our border. we are going to be doing some things. i ve been speaking with general mattis. we will be doing things militarily. until we can have a wall and proper security, we ll be guarding our border with the military. that s a big step. we really haven t done that before, certainly not very much before. former mexican president vicente fox firing back on twitter. to militarize the southern border is to provoke more hate, distance, even further between our nations. somebody has to talk some sense into him. he is elevating his hate toward mexico causing a greater conflict. as for the current mexican
what the president seemed to be saying today is that he may be looking at a more aggressive approach, where the national guard takes a more direct law enforcement role. plus a senior official is telling us tonight the number of national guard troops will be substantial, suggesting a larger number than ever before. i told mexico, i respect what they did, i said, look, your laws are very powerful, your laws are very strong. we have very bad laws for our border. we are going to be doing some things. i ve been speaking with general mattis. we will be doing things militarily. until we can have a wall and proper security, we ll be guarding our border with the military. that s a big step. we really haven t done that before, certainly not very much before. former mexican president vicente fox firing back on twitter. to militarize the southern border is to provoke more hate, distance, even further between our nations. somebody has to talk some sense into him. he is elevating his hate toward
what he and other democrats seem to have missed is that then president barack obama in 2010, george w. bush in 2006, they did similar things. the obama administration sent 1200 national guard troops to the southern border to assist border patrol and immigration officials amid concerns about drug trafficking, provided surveillance and reconnaissance. the bush administration launched operation jump-start for engineering road buildings. what the president seemed to be saying is that different, he may be looking at a more aggressive approach with the national guard come for taking on a direct law enforcement role. the number of national guard troops will be substantial, suggesting a larger number than we have ever seen before. we will have to fact-check that and see how it plays out. as you noted, the reaction from mexico, swift and negative. mentioned dave vicente fox saidn increasing hate and distance
serious the consideration is. we do know that secretary mattis and president trump spoke about this issue last week. you know there is some precedent for this. in 2006 through 2008, the u.s. military, the national guard, was involved in some southwest border patrol. i m sorry, border control. now, what that means is they were down there helping with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. they were trying to help the border patrol agents who were down there. they weren t actually involved in any kind of interdictions of people coming across the border. the national guard, they built some roads, they built some fencing. so they helped. they supported the mission. but they were not actually involved in any kind of law enforcement role. and that s because there s actually a law called it would be a violation of something called posse comitatus. which it does not allow any kind of federal troops, u.s. military, u.s. army, national, you know, federal troops to be involved in any ki