Trump administration sending tactical border team to Seattle

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Trump administration is sending a tactical border patrol team to Seattle, making good on President Trump's pledge to use the full force of the federal government to protect federal property, The New York Times reports.

The team being sent to Seattle is similar to the teams that have already been deployed to Portland to fortify federal property that has been damaged by protesters who have dominated the city's downtown area since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the end of May.

Formally the federal officers are known as a Special Response Team and operate under U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to the Times.

"The CBP team will be on standby in the area, should they be required," the Federal Protective Service said regarding the federal squadron.

A CBP spokesperson said that the team would only be used if the protests expected this weekend in Seattle escalate to a boiling point.

So far demonstrations have largely not been towards the Feds. Guess Trump wants to change that.

Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) told the Times in an interview that she had spoken with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acting Secretary Chad Wolf earlier Thursday. Wolf told her that administration didn't have plans to deploy a large force of agents to the city and wouldn't do so without communicating with her first. Durkan said that she hadn't been made aware of the incoming federal team, but noted that DHS could be making a distinction between active agents and those on standby. The mayor made it clear to Wolf that Seattle did not need the assistance of federal officers.

"Any deployment here would, in my view, undermine public safety," Durkan told the paper.


That sniveling wimp Chad Wolf wouldn't lie would he?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-sending-tactical-border-team-to-seattle/ar-BB177imy?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

[liberalmuse]

1. This will not end well.

Seattle will not suffer these gestapo. I guess I’d better go buy a yellow shirt.

[captain queeg]

2. Yeah that's what I'm thinking I just don't see Seattle being as congenial as Portland has been