re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

what the fuck is he on about? was there some border incident involving drawn guns?

About two weeks ago there was an incident involving US and Mexican troops:

The tweet comes after an incident on April 13 in which two active-duty U.S. soldiers involved in the Defense Department’s mission to provide camera surveillance at the border were briefly detained and disarmed on U.S. soil, U.S. military officials said.

Navy Capt. Pamela Kunze, a U.S. military spokeswoman, said in an email that five to six Mexican military members approached and questioned the U.S. soldiers, who were conducting border support operations near Clint, Tex., in an unmarked vehicle owned by Customs and Border Protection.

“An inquiry by CBP and DOD revealed that the Mexican military members mistakenly believed the U.S. Army soldiers were south of the border with Mexico,” Kunze wrote. “However, the U.S. soldiers were appropriately in U.S. territory. Though they were south of the border fence, U.S. soldiers remained in U.S. territory, north of the actual border.”

Because of course the existing border fence is stupidly well north of the actual fucking border.