Mission accomplished! The Trump administration is withdrawing troops from the U.S.-Mexico border:
About 2,200 of the active duty troops will be pulled out before the holidays, the officials said, shrinking an unusual domestic deployment that was viewed by critics as a political stunt and a waste of military resources.
Yes, “viewed by critics as a political stunt” and mysteriously drawing down just weeks after the elections. Those critics sure must be feeling … completely vindicated, actually.
There will still be about 3,000 active duty troops on the border, which is still an absurd effort to paint desperate asylum-seekers as dangerous and to intimidate people against fleeing for their lives.