BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy members of the National Guard to the southern U.S. border with Mexico is ‘a colossal waste of resources,’ according to the leader of a union representing members of the U.S. Border Patrol. National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd, who represents roughly 15,000 agents, panned the measure that the president implemented last month to beef up border security and curb illegal immigration, regarding it as fruitless, according to a Los Angeles Times report released late Thursday [5-24-18]. ‘We have seen no benefit,’ Judd said…The criticism marks a departure for a group that during the 2016 elections endorsed Trump’s presidential run and hailed his push to tighten border security. It was the first time the union had endorsed a presidential candidate. The president in April activated a plan to dispatch National Guard troops to the border, with Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen announcing at the time the move was intended to help alleviate the task of border patrol agents.”
-Cristiano Lima, “Border Patrol union chief calls Trump troop deployment ‘a colossal waste,'” Politico, May 25, 2018 6:59 am