Deployment numbers are increase from initial estimates of 800 troops
The U.S. military plans to deploy 5,000 troops to the southwest U.S.
border in anticipation of a caravan of would-be asylum seekers and
migrants currently moving northward in Mexico, U.S. officials said
Monday.
The new figure is a major increase from initial estimates of 800 troops and would represent a military force equal to about one-third the number of customs officials currently working at the border. The military sent about 2,000 National Guard troops to the area earlier this year.
As thousands of Central Americans continue marching north, President Trump reportedly plans to make a major immigration speech on Tuesday.
According to the Washington Post, he is expected to announce that he is invoking emergency powers, on national security grounds, to stop those people and others from entering the United States.
“I think what the president has been saying and will continue to say, and certainly what I have been saying, is, this caravan is not getting in,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told “Fox News Sunday.”
The new figure is a major increase from initial estimates of 800 troops and would represent a military force equal to about one-third the number of customs officials currently working at the border. The military sent about 2,000 National Guard troops to the area earlier this year.
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As thousands of Central Americans continue marching north, President Trump reportedly plans to make a major immigration speech on Tuesday.
According to the Washington Post, he is expected to announce that he is invoking emergency powers, on national security grounds, to stop those people and others from entering the United States.
“I think what the president has been saying and will continue to say, and certainly what I have been saying, is, this caravan is not getting in,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told “Fox News Sunday.”
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