Pentagon To Send A ‘Few Thousand’ More Troops To Southern Border

The Pentagon will send “a few thousand” more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan announced Tuesday.

Shanahan said the military is supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in its recent request for an extension of the Pentagon’s mission at the border. That request also called for more assistance in laying additional concertina wire and expanding surveillance.

There are about 2,350 active-duty troops currently at the southern border after they were first deployed shortly before the midterm elections last year.

Read more at The Hill.

{Matzav.com}