Put troops on the border, they said..

I am not sure this is what anyone had in mind, though.

The Jakarta Post:
from "Sixteen US Marines arrested on human trafficking, drugs charges," Jakarta Post

The US military said on Thursday it had arrested 16 Marines on human trafficking and drug-related charges.The group was taken into custody during a battalion formation at Camp Pendleton, a major Marine base in California about 65 miles (90 kilometers) north of the Mexican border.

"The 16 Marines were arrested for alleged involvement in various illegal activities ranging from human smuggling to drug-related offenses. Information gained from a previous human smuggling investigation precipitated the arrests," the military said in a statement. It added that eight other Marines "were taken aside to be questioned on their involvement in alleged drug offenses unrelated to today's arrests."

Marine spokeswoman Major Kendra Motz said the charges were a "mixed bag" and not all of the arrested Marines were accused of human trafficking.

Thursday's arrests came after Marines Byron Darnell Law II and David Javier Salazar-Quintero were taken into custody earlier in the month for allegedly smuggling undocumented Mexican migrants into the US.

The pair were charged after three Mexican nationals who were prepared to pay $8,000 "to be smuggled into the United States" were found in the back of their vehicle about six miles over the border, a court document said. 

Motz said the case against Law and Salazar-Quintero "identified the allegations" against the 16 Marines arrested Thursday, who also belonged to the same unit at Camp Pendleton as the two men.
With a Spanish middle name like "Javier" and a Spanish last name like "Salazar-Quintero", it is safe to assume this guy's family origins are from south of the U.S. border somewhere.




That being the case, it is almost as if this piece of conspiracy-theorist hate propaganda was true..


Will migrants from just across the border
want to preserve OUR national borders?
Well, will they?


As for the other guy, Byron Darnell Law II, let's jump to a second report about the incident for further insight.

Illegal alien crime report:
[...]

Law told Border Patrol agents that he was an active duty Marine and that the day prior Salazar-Quintero had contacted him and asked if he wanted to make $1,000 to pick up an “illegal alien.”

Imagine being a marine, in charge of defending the country, but being so in need of - or enamored by - the prospect of $1000 that you would risk a discharge from the military and criminal charges for it. Or maybe this is really the intelligence quotient we are dealing with these days.

Honk honk?


A rare, leaked photo of the U.S. military gathered at the border

The U.S. military during "drive an illegal to work day",
a weekly bipartisan event sponsored by globalists in Congress