The Secret to Secure Borders with Mexico - Redeploy American Troops from Overseas

Dear President Trump - here is a way to strengthen the Border with Mexico!

Why not relocate US Troops to new US Bases along the Mexican border?  We could help stop the senseless killing, over 200,000 Mexican citizens while Obama was president, caught in the middle of a drug war.  At the same time, a series of a dozen or more bases stretched out along the border would move thousands of trained military into the vicinity of the human trafficking of illegal immigrants along with the drug dealers. Right now the US pays the highest costs possible to foreign governments to post our troops overseas for the purpose of defending their foreign lands.

If we had a series of military bases along the border, we would reduce foreign costs for defense, provide thousands of trained soldiers to help with immigration and drug trafficking, and be able to use the bases to monitor high-tech electronic monitoring of the border rather than build a giant wall. It would also help stimulate the local economies where the bases would be built and soldiers and families housed.

Redeployment of overseas forces

Here is what I wrote in an article June 3, 2010:

We have over 2.5 million defense soldiers and civilian employees but only 1.1 million are in the USA. Since a few thousand remain in both Iraq and Afghanistan that leaves 1.2 million DOD employees all over the rest of the world. There are over 735 American military bases outside the USA including 38 large and medium size facilities.

At the height of the British Empire in 1898 they had 36 bases spread out around the world and at the height of the Roman Empire in 117 AD they had 37 major bases. Of course they were both trying to conquer the world. We aren't supposed to be conquering the world so get rid of the excess bases.

Maybe the president should stop playing world policeman and close the majority of the overseas bases, leaving only those absolutely needed for national security, and set up a network of domestic bases along the border with Mexico. We already have the troops and are paying to keep them outside the country. Why not set up border bases in Arizona, New Mexico, a couple in Texas and maybe one more in Southern California?



Perhaps the presence of thousands of American troops might help stop the flow of illegal drugs and the human trafficking of illegal immigrants? It might even help Mexico reduce the massive death rate from the drug war along the border that has cost nearly 200,000 Mexican lives, men, women, and children, since 2007.

This is one of the darkest elements of the border traffic and is a plague to Arizona and the other states.  Here is a solution that saves money and lives while reducing costly foreign expenditures that can no longer be justified.
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Donald Trump Presidential Campaign leaves networks Rich with Ratings

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Cable TV Rankings 2016: Presidential Politics Fuels Ratings Gains

by Lisa de Moraes

December 20, 2016

2016 will be remembered as the year Donald Trump won the White House by taking control of the television news cycle. One year after the reality TV star’s antics and debate performances nearly catapulted Fox News Channel to the top spot among basic cable networks, finishing within 300,000 viewers of ESPN, this year Fox News leapfrogged the sports network by more than half a million primetime viewers, averaging nearly 2.5 million to ESPN’s 1.9 million.

With presidential politics taking over as viewers’ contact sport of choice, FNC enjoyed a 36% year-to-year total-viewer spike, while ESPN tumbled 11%, after 2015’s 7% decline.

But FNC wasn’t the only cable news network benefiting. CNN enjoyed a Trump-fueled 77% total-viewers spike, pushing AMC out of the yearly primetime Top 10; last year, CNN only notched a 24th-place finish. 

This year, AMC will settle for 11th place, after dropping 9% year to year.

And MSNBC, last year’s No. 29-ranked basic cable net in overall primetime crowd, jumped 87% to land at No. 12 with 1.1M viewers compared with previous year’s 596K.

The rest of 2016’s Top 10 list is the Land of Double-Digit Declines, save USA Network, which dropped a more modest 8%, and HGTV, the only non-news network to experience audience again in primetime crowd, to the tune of 5%.

USA Network

USA did, however, hang on to its status as the most watched basic cable entertainment network for an 11th consecutive year, finishing behind FNC and ESPN with 1.7M viewers.

ESPN hung on to the top spot in the coveted 18-49 demographic group, with 816K viewers in that age bracket. But here too the network tumbled, 12%, on the heels of last year’s 9% slip.

In the demo, as in overall audience, the biggest year-to-year gains were enjoyed by the news networks. CNN spiked a massive 90% in the 18-49 age group, logging 373K primetime viewers to outstrip FNC (354K, up 51%) for the year. In the percentage racket, CNN was beaten by MSNBC, which climbed 99% from last year’s negligible 104K to 207K this year.

But TBS was No. 2 in the demo to ESPN with 729K viewers, despite sloughing off 13% of its audience; USA followed (692K), with a 4% year-to-year slip.

Here are the 2016 rankings in total viewers and demo through December 18:

BASIC CABLE RANKINGS 2016 (Total Viewers in millions)

Rank network p2+ 2016 p2+ 2015 % change 1 Fox News Channel 2.48M 1.83M +36% 2 ESPN 1.91M 2.15M -11% 3 USA Network 1.68M 1.82M -8% 4 TBS 1.59M 1.80M -12% 5 HGTV 1.58M 1.50M +5% 6 TNT 1.55M 1.72M -10% 7 Discovery Channel 1.40M 1.55M -10% 8 History 1.33M 1.49M -11% 9 Disney Channel 1.32M 1.72M -23% 10 CNN 1.30M 0.732M +77% 11 AMC 1.26M 1.38M -9% 12 MSNBC 1.113M 0.596M +87% 13 FX 1.109M 1.22M -9% 14 Food Network 1.06M 1.11M -5% 15 Hallmark Channel 1.06M 0.959M +10% 16 Investigation Discovery 0.994M 0.909M +9% 17 Adult Swim 0.991M 1.05M -6% 18 Lifetime 0.955M 1.04M -8% 19 Bravo 0.908M 0.849M +7% 20 TLC 0.877M 0.926M -5% 21 A&E Network 0.847M 0.937M -10% 22 Freeform 0.812M 1.05M -22% 23 Nick At Nite 0.808M 0.814M -1% 24 Spike TV 0.704M 0.779M -10% 25 Syfy 0.692M 0.990M -30% 26 VH1 0.639M 0.639M 0% 27 TV Land 0.620M 0.606M 2% 28 Disney Junior 0.595M 0.617M -4% 29 Nick Jr 0.594M 0.416M +43% 30 Animal Planet 0.593M 0.636M -7% 31 OWN 0.537M 0.584M +9% 32 MTV 0.580M 0.569M -2% 33 Hallmark Movies & Mysteries 0.549M 0.428M +28% 34 Comedy Central 0.529M 0.583M -9% 35 E! 0.521M 0.535M -3%

Source: Nielsen; Live+SD numbers from 12/28/2015-12/18/2016

BASIC CABLE RANKINGS 2016(Adults 18-49 in Thousands)

rank network p18-49 2016 p18-49 2015 % change 1 ESPN 816K 923K -12% 2 TBS 729K 836K -13% 3 USA Network 692K 723K -4% 4 TNT 625K 639K -2% 5 AMC 610K 698K -13% 6 Discovery Channel 575K 669K -14% 7 FX 560K 609K -8% 8 Adult Swim 530K 543K -2% 9 HGTV 476K 466K +2% 10 Bravo 469K 474K -1% 11 Food Network 431K 469K -8% 12 History 417K 476K -12% 13 Lifetime 411K 434K -5% 14 Freeform 408K 527K -23% 15 VH1 396K 400K -1% 16 A&E Network 390K 399K -2% 17 CNN 373K 196K +90% 17 MTV 373K 371K +1% 19 Fox News Channel 354K 234K +51% 20 Spike TV 344K 388K -11% 21 Comedy Central 337K 379K -11% 22 TLC 334K 365K -8% 23 Investigation Discovery 327K 310K +5% 24 Disney Channel 319K 385K -17% 25 Nick At nite 298K 276K +8% 26 E! 290K 305K -5% 27 Syfy 280K 399K -30% 28 Hallmark Channel 251K 199K +26% 29 TruTV 223K 232K -4% 30 FXX 219K 228K -4% 31 BET 209K 289K -28% 32 MSNBC 207K 104K +99% 33 OWN 202K 185K +9% 34 Fox Sports 1 201K 170K +18% 35 Animal Planet 193K 224K -14%

Source: Nielsen; Live+SD numbers from 12/28/2015-12/18/2016

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The Secret to Secure Borders with Mexico - Redeploy American Troops from Overseas

Pay attention presidential candidates, - here is an alternative to the fence in Mexico!

Why not relocate US Troops to new US Bases along the Mexican border?  We could help stop the senseless killing, 160,000 Mexican citizens since Obama took office, caught in the middle of a drug war.  At the same time, a series of a dozen or more bases stretched out along the border would move thousands of trained military into the vicinity of the human trafficking of illegal immigrants along with the drug dealers. Right now the US pays the highest costs possible to foreign governments to post our troops overseas for the purpose of defending their foreign lands.

If we had a series of military bases along the border, we would reduce foreign costs for defense, provide thousands of trained soldiers to help with immigration and drug trafficking, and be able to use the bases to monitor high-tech electronic monitoring of the border rather than build a giant wall. It would also help stimulate the local economies where the bases would be built and soldiers and families housed.

Redeployment of overseas forces

Here is what I wrote in an article June 3, 2010:

We have over 2.5 million defense soldiers and civilian employees but only 1.1 million are in the USA. Since a few thousand remain in both Iraq and Afghanistan that leaves 1.2 million DOD employees all over the rest of the world. There are over 735 American military bases outside the USA including 38 large and medium size facilities.

At the height of the British Empire in 1898 they had 36 bases spread out around the world and at the height of the Roman Empire in 117 AD they had 37 major bases. Of course they were both trying to conquer the world. We aren't supposed to be conquering the world so get rid of the excess bases.

Maybe the president should stop playing world policeman and close the majority of the overseas bases, leaving only those absolutely needed for national security, and set up a network of domestic bases along the border with Mexico. We already have the troops and are paying to keep them outside the country. Why not set up border bases in Arizona, New Mexico, a couple in Texas and maybe one more in Southern California?



Perhaps the presence of thousands of American troops might help stop the flow of illegal drugs and the human trafficking of illegal immigrants? It might even help Mexico reduce the massive death rate from the drug war along the border that has cost nearly 200,000 Mexican lives, men, women, and children, since 2007.

This is one of the darkest elements of the border traffic and is a plague to Arizona and the other states.  Here is a solution that saves money and lives while reducing costly foreign expenditures that can no longer be justified.
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The Secret to Secure Borders - Redeploy American Troops from Overseas

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Pay attention presidential candidates, - here is an alternative to the fence in Mexico!

Why not relocate US Troops to new US Bases along the Mexican border?  We could help stop the senseless killing, 160,000 Mexican citizens since Obama took office, caught in the middle of a drug war.  At the same time, a series of a dozen or more bases stretched out along the border would move thousands of trained military into the vicinity of the human trafficking of illegal immigrants along with the drug dealers.  Right now the US pays the highest costs possible to foreign governments to post our troops overseas for the purpose of defending their foreign lands.

If we had a series of military bases along the border, we would reduce foreign costs for defense, provide thousands of trained soldiers to help with immigration and drug trafficking, and be able to use the bases to monitor high-tech electronic monitoring of the border rather than build a giant wall. It would also help stimulate the local economies where the bases would be built and soldiers and families housed.

Redeployment of overseas forces

Here is what I wrote in an article June 3, 2010:

We have over 2.5 million defense soldiers and civilian employees but only 1.1 million are in the USA. Since a few thousand remain in both Iraq and Afghanistan that leaves 1.2 million DOD employees all over the rest of the world. There are over 735 American military bases outside the USA including 38 large and medium size facilities.

At the height of the British Empire in 1898 they had 36 bases spread out around the world and at the height of the Roman Empire in 117 AD they had 37 major bases. Of course they were both trying to conquer the world. We aren't supposed to be conquering the world so get rid of the excess bases.

Maybe the president should stop playing world policeman and close the majority of the overseas bases, leaving only those absolutely needed for national security, and set up a network of domestic bases along the border with Mexico. We already have the troops and are paying to keep them outside the country. Why not set up border bases in Arizona, New Mexico, a couple in Texas and maybe one more in Southern California?



Perhaps the presence of thousands of American troops might help stop the flow of illegal drugs and the human trafficking of illegal immigrants? It might even help Mexico reduce the massive death rate from the drug war along the border that has cost 160,000 Mexican lives, men, women, and children, since 2007.

This is one of the darkest elements of the border traffic and is a plague to Arizona and the other states.  Here is a solution that saves money and lives while reducing costly foreign expenditures that can no longer be justified.
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