The Pentagon is to send 3,750 more troops to the US-Mexico border to put up another 150 miles of barbed wire and provide other support for Customs and Border Protection. The Pentagon is to send 3,750 more troops to the US-Mexico border to put up another 150 miles of barbed wire and provide other support for Customs and Border Protection. The additions will bring the total number of active-duty troops on the border to 4,350. Members of Congress have question whether the border mission is distracting troops from their main work of fighting extremists abroad and training for combat. “What impact does it have to readiness to send several thousand troops down to the Southern border?

Source: Irish Independent February 04, 2019 03:09 UTC