US Military Will Likely Deploy To The Southern Border, 800 Troops Prepare To Meet Migrant Caravan

The Department of Defense is reportedly preparing to send 800 active-duty members of the U.S. military to the southern border to assist the United States Customs and Border Patrol in meeting and handling a “migrant caravan” making its way through Mexico.

Military Times reports that “Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will send 800 active-duty troops, not National Guard forces, to bolster the roughly 2,100 National Guardsmen who have already been positioned at the U.S.-Mexico border.”