{"id":24242,"date":"2019-02-25T23:52:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T23:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/02\/25\/congressman-an-officer-back-from-an-air-guard-mission-on-the-border-now-backs-trumps-emergency-declaration\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:11:20","slug":"congressman-an-officer-back-from-an-air-guard-mission-on-the-border-now-backs-trumps-emergency-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/congress\/2019\/02\/25\/congressman-an-officer-back-from-an-air-guard-mission-on-the-border-now-backs-trumps-emergency-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman, an officer back from an Air Guard mission on the border, now backs Trump\u2019s emergency declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2019\/02\/14\/air-guards-rc-26-decision-undermines-trumps-border-security-priorities\/\" target=_blank>Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger<\/a>, a lieutenant colonel in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/11\/05\/why-were-active-duty-forces-picked-over-guard-to-defend-the-border-capabilities-pentagon-says\/\" target=_blank>Air National Guard<\/a>, is back from a two-week deployment flying surveillance missions over the Arizona border, and the experience shored up his support for President Donald Trump\u2019s national emergency declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI went down there kind of undecided,\u201d Kinzinger said on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation\u201d Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think if this was just an issue of immigration it wouldn\u2019t constitute a national emergency, but what I saw was really disturbing,&#8221; he said, adding that he would not vote to try to block the president\u2019s national emergency declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some lawmakers have called the president\u2019s move unconstitutional, as it bypasses Congress\u2019 power of the purse. Kinzinger, though, does not agree with that assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLook, I wish this would have happened a different way,\u201d he said. \u201cI voted for comprehensive immigration reform. I think Republicans, the Democrat, both have good ideas on immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kinzinger, who pilots the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2015\/11\/23\/grueling-pace-for-old-planes-tankers-and-their-maintainers-cant-afford-to-slow-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">RC-26 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft<\/a>, said he tackled the mission from an apolitical point of view when he traded his flag pin for his flight cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/opinion\/commentary\/2019\/02\/14\/air-guards-rc-26-decision-undermines-trumps-border-security-priorities\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RC-26.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Air Guard\u2019s RC-26 decision undermines Trump\u2019s border security priorities<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Despite the important abilities of the RC-26 reconnaissance plane, Air Guard officials announced they\u2019ll be removing it from use, and will do so quickly.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kinzinger said he flew missions in which he helped interdict 70 pounds of methamphetamines on a border crosser, as well as helped identify a woman who had been abandoned in the desert by human traffickers, also known as \u201ccoyotes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHad she actually not been found by us, I don\u2019t know if she\u2019d been able to find her way home,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So yeah, she got picked up by Border Patrol, she\u2019s going to be deported, but that was a way better option than being one of the 200, at least, bodies they end up finding in the desert every year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was Kinzinger\u2019s first time flying missions out of Arizona, but he said this was his fourth time flying on the southern border.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/commentary\/2019\/02\/14\/air-guards-rc-26-decision-undermines-trumps-border-security-priorities\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RC-26.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Air Guard\u2019s RC-26 decision undermines Trump\u2019s border security priorities<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Despite the important abilities of the RC-26 reconnaissance plane, Air Guard officials announced they\u2019ll be removing it from use, and will do so quickly.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTexas by the way, I was there under President Obama,\u201d he added. \u201cSo the Guard\u2019s mission on the border is nothing new.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the interview, Kinzinger acknowledged that border apprehensions are near a 50-year low, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/documents\/2017-Dec\/BP%20Southwest%20Border%20Sector%20Apps%20FY1960%20-%20FY2017.pdf\" target=_blank>U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/a> data sheets. He also recognized that some border state governors have pushed back against the need for active-duty deployments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he added that those numbers may be skewed by the inability of Border Patrol agents to catch illegal crossers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom my experience there were many, many groups that we would see on technology with camera radar or something like that that we could not go address because there were not enough Border Patrol agents,\u201d Kinzinger said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese agents sometimes left to take a truck and then walk two miles through terrible terrain to get to these groups only to have them run while they\u2019re already exhausted and they get lost in that chaos,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So is it down? Maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/C-Kinzinger.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/C-Kinzinger.jpg.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/C-Kinzinger.jpg.jpg?resize=300,157 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/C-Kinzinger.jpg.jpg?resize=768,402 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/C-Kinzinger.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,536 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. (Susan Walsh\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Glad for the slower withdrawal in Syria<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kinzinger was also asked about his stance on the U.S. troop strength in Syria, amid reports that President Donald Trump now planned to keep roughly 400 Americans in the country\u2019s north and southeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI certainly wish it was more than that,\u201d he said, adding that he was \u201cglad that the president has reversed\u201d his decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think 2,000 troops was a great example, frankly, of how we\u2019re doing war in the 21st century \u2026 which is legitimizing the local folks and using our Special Forces to give them the combat power necessary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kinzinger, like many who support a U.S. presence in Syria, is worried that leaving the country altogether opens a door for Iranian influence to move through the Iraq-Syria border, threatening Arab and Israeli allies. He also expressed concern that the Islamic State could rise again in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIran\u2019s position there is a mess and I actually worry about the future, not just of Syria, but the future of a potential regional conflict,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It remains unclear exactly what mission such a small contingent of U.S. troops will perform if left behind in Syria. Kinzinger does not envision them going out on \u201ccombat patrols,&#8221; however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is no country that would be dumb enough to attack our forces there, but of course we\u2019ve seen, even recently with ISIS, their boldness in attacking American military,&#8221; Kinzinger said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s why we have to stay on the offense. There\u2019s going to be an ISIS two someday. There\u2019s going to be an al-Qaida three. It\u2019s a generational fight. It\u2019s not just through war. It\u2019s giving hope to the next generation of folks in the Middle East to reject that ideology within their own religion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Rep. 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