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Hundreds More Active-Duty Troops May Be Sent To U.S.-Mexico Border

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01.12.2019 at 05:29am

Hundreds More Active-Duty Troops May Be Sent To U.S.-Mexico Border by Lolita C. Baldor – AP

U.S. officials say the Pentagon is finalizing plans that would send hundreds of additional active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border for several more months to support the Department of Homeland Security.

 

The troops would install another 160 miles of concertina wire in Arizona and California.

 

Details are being worked out, but the plan likely would extend the military’s border mission though the end of September.

The mission is separate from President Donald Trump’s campaign to build a border wall but is designed to bolster security

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