A SERIOUS PRESIDENT – AT 11:31 P.M. ET:  It's almost amusing watching the mainstream press try to diminish President Trump.  Despite his failings, and his unerring ability to say the right thing at the wrong time, this is a very serious president, who actually sets out to keep his promises and to mean what he says.  Now, he must deal with a crisis at the southern border.  From USA Today:

The Pentagon will deploy up 5,000 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to prevent members of a migrant caravan from illegally entering the country, a U.S. official said Monday.

About 2,100 National Guard troops are already fanned out across the border under an order from President Donald Trump earlier this year. In recent weeks, the president has been warning repeatedly about the dangers posed by a caravan of mostly Central American migrants, which has swelled to an estimated 7,000 people and is continuing its slow trek north through Mexico.

Administration officials said last week that they were considering a plan to send up to 1,000 active duty troops to the border, but that deployment has increased to 5,000, according to the Department of Homeland Security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the plans before a formal announcement Monday afternoon.

The troops are not expected to conduct law enforcement activities, but instead provide backup support to Border Patrol agents manning the border and be prepared to react if groups of migrants try to storm the border.

COMMENT:  The action is correct.  An assessment should be made as to how many troops are needed, and that number should then be doubled.  (Eisenhower said that if you need a battalion send a division.) 

The world's media will be there, seeking to embarrass the United States, and Trump should not take the bait.  The troops should be given strict orders as to what to do and not to do, and, recalling Eisenhower's sending of troops to Little Rock in 1957 to enforce a desegregation order, the operation should be conducted as quickly and undramatically as possible, with the troops then withdrawn.

The laws of the United States will be enforced.  That is why we have the president take an oath of office.

October 29, 2018