Separately, the Defense Department recently said it would be deploying to the border an additional 320 military personnel, including cooks, drivers and lawyers, at a cost of more than $7 million. While Pentagon policy and U.S. law prohibit military personnel from directly interacting with migrants or domestic law enforcement, those roles will bring troops into regular, direct contact with migrants for the first time since Trump's border deployment began in October.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 01, 2019 19:30 UTC