5,000 US troops deploy to the southern border in response to a caravan of migrants.
5,000 US troops deploy to the southern border in response to a caravan of migrants.
Some 5,000 US troops will be deployed to the southern border in response to the caravan of migrants moving north through Mexico, a US official confirmed to Fox News.
Some of the troops will be deployed as early as Tuesday. The reinforcements that go to the US border. UU And Mexico are support troops, not combat troops, and will include engineers, as well as medical and aviation personnel.
The deployment of troops, first report of The Wall Street Journal, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was expected to approve the request last week. But the number of troops is much greater than the initial estimates.
President Trump, meanwhile, has called for the caravan to turn around and warned its members that the army "is waiting for it!"
He wrote on Twitter on Monday: "Many gang members and some very bad people mingle in the Caravan that heads to our southern border. Come back, you will not be admitted to the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion of our country and our military is waiting for you!
Fox News has learned that the military police will be among those who will go to the border, although they will not act in a role of law enforcement, but in a mission of "protection of force", protecting any military personnel. I know. UU That supports the Border Patrol, according to another officer.
The combat troops are not being considered, although most of the reinforcements that go to the border are forces in active service.
Because they would not be fulfilling the duties of law enforcement, they would not be violating the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the federal government from using the armed forces in a national police role.
There are already around 2,000 National Guard soldiers who attend the border under a previous Pentagon agreement. With 5,000 additional troops heading south, there will be about the same number of US forces positioned along the southern border when deployed in Iraq and Syria together.
While troops are being deployed, White House officials continue to discuss possible executive or regulatory actions to prevent people in the caravan from crossing the border.
An idea that is being considered is a measure that would only allow asylum applications to be made at a port of entry or crossing the border. According to the idea, anyone who tried to submit an asylum request crossing the border illegally would be considered inadmissible, and their request would be rejected.
The caravan of Central American migrants continues its journey north from southern Mexico, but is still approximately 1,000 miles from the southern border with the US. UU
The caravan is now estimated at around 4,000 people.
John Roberts and The Associated Press of Fox News contributed to this report.
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