Pentagon to send 5,200 troops to guard borderBy ASSOCIATED PRESShome/News/World/Pentagon to send 5,200 troops to guard borderWASHINGTON, D.C.: The Pentagon said it was sending 5,200 troops to the southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants moving north in slow-moving caravans that are still hundreds of miles from the United States. The number of troops being deployed is more than double the 2,000 who are in Syria fighting the Islamic State group. “We’re going to put tents up all over the place,” told Fox News Channel’s Laura Ingraham. “They’re going to be very nice and they’re going to wait and if they don’t get asylum, they get out.”Under current protocol, migrants who clear an initial screening are often released until their cases are decided in immigration court, which can take several years. Advanced helicopters will allow border protection agents to swoop down on migrants trying to cross illegally, said Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy.

Source: Manila Times October 30, 2018 16:07 UTC