The Air Force is the only one of the military branches involved in President Donald Trump's mandated border mission to not disclose publicly the number of service members or what units they're coming from.
The practice originates from prisoner movement during our global war on terror. It was due to concern over domestic operatives targeting armed forces members, which is not new. The linked story is an example of this being used to instill fear.
While I don’t think this equates at all for simple deportation flights, this seems to be the underlying justification for the above tactic, be it to prevent retaliation or “making an example” to scare away further attempts at deportation.
Again, I didn’t think this concern is nearly as founded as it was during global war on terrorism, but this is what I think is the justification.
Oh, I was hoping more for an article or a statement made by a person of authority that was saying “The procedure was done according to this report by our intelligence officials and thus we conduct ourselves this way” kinda link. I mean what you’re saying sounds plausible but that link from 2015 even says it was just social media kinda data if anything was actually real to begin with (nobody would confirm the validity, etc). I could see them using the scare tactics, just would like to see someone actually stating what the situation is.
The practice originates from prisoner movement during our global war on terror. It was due to concern over domestic operatives targeting armed forces members, which is not new. The linked story is an example of this being used to instill fear.
While I don’t think this equates at all for simple deportation flights, this seems to be the underlying justification for the above tactic, be it to prevent retaliation or “making an example” to scare away further attempts at deportation.
Again, I didn’t think this concern is nearly as founded as it was during global war on terrorism, but this is what I think is the justification.
Oh, I was hoping more for an article or a statement made by a person of authority that was saying “The procedure was done according to this report by our intelligence officials and thus we conduct ourselves this way” kinda link. I mean what you’re saying sounds plausible but that link from 2015 even says it was just social media kinda data if anything was actually real to begin with (nobody would confirm the validity, etc). I could see them using the scare tactics, just would like to see someone actually stating what the situation is.
Yeah, I was trying to find something like that to back up my point. Article, AFI, SecDec report, Pentagon statement, etc, but couldn’t find anything. There’s someone else in the thread who posted some pictures of these teams without nametapes, but that’s not much stronger evidence than my word.