The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 extra lively responsibility troopers to the southern border to assist President Donald Trump’s increasing crackdown on immigration, a U.S. official mentioned Friday.
That might finally convey the entire to about 3,600 lively responsibility troops on the border.
The order has been authorized, the official mentioned, to ship a logistics brigade from the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty in North Carolina. The official spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of the deployment has not but been publicly introduced.
The Pentagon has been scrambling to place in movement Trump’s government orders signed shortly after he took workplace on Jan. 20. The primary group of 1,600 lively responsibility troops has already deployed to the border, and near 500 extra troopers from the tenth Mountain Division are anticipated to start shifting within the coming days.
About 500 Marines even have been instructed to go to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the place a few of the detained migrants can be held. A number of hundred of them have already arrived there.
Troops going to the border are anticipated to assist put in place concertina wire boundaries and supply wanted transportation, intelligence and different assist to the Border Patrol. The logistics brigade will assist assist and maintain the troops.
Troops going to Guantanamo are serving to to organize the power for an inflow of migrants and do different assist duties.
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