WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the ...
And he has ordered a steady planning requirement to maintain border operations. The executive order does not establish how many or which types of troops would be deployed, whether active-duty ...
He first deployed the National Guard to the southwest border in April 2018, then supplemented them with active-duty troops seven months later. The use of troops was later criticized by the ...
Sending troops to the border is a strategy that Trump has used before as has President Joe Biden. In 2018, Trump deployed 800 active-duty troops to assist Border Patrol personnel in ...
Trump signed executive orders aimed at building military presence along the border and designating cartels as foreign ...