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Subject: Pentagon Sends Troops to California Border amid Fears of Border Rush
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Grind for February 26th
"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out." J. R. R. Tolkien
The Headline
Pentagon Sends Troops to California Border amid Fears of Border Rush
The Grind
The government is sending 160 soldiers to help border agents block the migrant surge that is expected if the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down the Migrant Protection Protocols. The MPP program has sent roughly 60,000 migrants back into Mexico, prior to their eventual asylum hearings in the United States. The return policy deters migration by preventing migrants from getting the U.S. jobs they need to repay their smuggling loans -- unless they eventually win their backlogged courtroom claims. Some of the 30,000 migrants waiting in Mexico rushed for the border February 28 when the court declared the MPP program to be illegal. The court then quickly put a stay on its decision to block the MPP until March 12, pending any Supreme Court intervention.
The Details
The California-based court also decided to allow the MPP program to operate in Texas. Officials at the Department of Justice have asked the Supreme Court to extend the delay. Administration officials are sending the troops to the border out of fear the migrants will try to overwhelm the border defenses on March 12. Officials also said the extra troops could help prevent the migration of people with diseases, such as the Covid-19 disease from China. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency's "mission is to secure our nation's borders, and measures such as the Crisis Response Force employment allow CBP to do just that," a senior agency official told reporters March 6. He continued.
Sanders Struggles to Expand Supporter Base After Warren Exit
The Grind
It took Joe Biden's moderate rivals just hours to unite behind his presidential campaign after they left the race. Bernie Sanders hasn't been so fortunate. Elizabeth Warren, one of Sanders' closest ideological allies, declined to endorse anyone after suspending her campaign on Thursday. She didn't rule out an endorsement of her New England neighbor but said she wanted to "take a deep breath and spend a little time on that." High-profile Warren supporters across the country, particularly women, were also hesitant to race into Sanders' camp. And on Capitol Hill, where Biden was racking up new endorsements daily, the Vermont senator hasn't earned a single new endorsement, even among the most progressive elected officials, in two weeks.
The dangerous silence from Warren and progressive officials across the country comes at the worst time for Sanders, who's suddenly losing momentum in a two-man race with the former vice president as another set of high-stakes primary elections looms. Sanders is moving forward with the same coalition that was beaten soundly earlier this week. And if he cannot find a way to grow, and grow quickly, the Vermont senator's 2020 challenge will only become more dire. There is an increasing sense of frustration within Sanders' campaign, where a divide over strategy has emerged between opposing camps, according to a person close to the campaign who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose private discussions.
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1 comment:
Small number of troops. But surely and slowly the border becomes more and more militarized.
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