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10-29-2018, 05:18 PM
Breaking on NPR:
Pentagon: 5,000 Troops Will Be Deployed To U.S.-Mexico Border
October 29, 2018
Tom Bowman
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A border protection officer stands next to a recently completed section of the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border in Calexico, Calif., on Friday. The Pentagon says it will send 5,000 U.S. troops to the border.
Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
Updated at 5:05 p.m. ET
The U.S. military will be sending 5,000 support troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Pentagon announced on Monday.
The exact number could be slightly higher or lower, a Pentagon official told NPR. The official said the deployment is being done to support the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection.
The uniformed troops are likely to be active-duty Army personnel, with perhaps some members of the Army Reserve and Marines. There are already 2,100 National Guard members deployed to the border.
The announcement comes as a caravan of migrants is making its way from Central America to the Southwest border of the U.S. CBP Assistant Commissioner of Public Affairs Andrew Meehan said in a news conference Monday afternoon that there are approximately 3,500 people in one group, which is currently at the Chiapas-Oaxaca border in southern Mexico. A second group of about 3,000 migrants is at the border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico, he said.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/29/661863890/pentagon-5-000-troops-will-be-deployed-to-u-s-mexico-border
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Pentagon: 5,000 Troops Will Be Deployed To U.S.-Mexico Border
October 29, 2018
Tom Bowman
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2018/10/29/gettyimages-1054051530-473b1fce4245a16c1fa03248f1c0b3f184959f01-s800-c85.jpg
A border protection officer stands next to a recently completed section of the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border in Calexico, Calif., on Friday. The Pentagon says it will send 5,000 U.S. troops to the border.
Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
Updated at 5:05 p.m. ET
The U.S. military will be sending 5,000 support troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Pentagon announced on Monday.
The exact number could be slightly higher or lower, a Pentagon official told NPR. The official said the deployment is being done to support the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection.
The uniformed troops are likely to be active-duty Army personnel, with perhaps some members of the Army Reserve and Marines. There are already 2,100 National Guard members deployed to the border.
The announcement comes as a caravan of migrants is making its way from Central America to the Southwest border of the U.S. CBP Assistant Commissioner of Public Affairs Andrew Meehan said in a news conference Monday afternoon that there are approximately 3,500 people in one group, which is currently at the Chiapas-Oaxaca border in southern Mexico. A second group of about 3,000 migrants is at the border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico, he said.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/29/661863890/pentagon-5-000-troops-will-be-deployed-to-u-s-mexico-border
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