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February 7, 2019

Pentagon Deploys 3,750 Additional Troops to U.S.-Mexico Border
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Gov. Grisham's order to remove National Guard troops from the border
came just days after the Trump administration ordered the Pentagon to
send more than 3,700 additional troops to the border. Among the latest
to deploy are 250 soldiers sent to Eagle Pass, Texas, across the Rio
Grande from a Mexican border town where a caravan of some 1,800 asylum
seekers arrived this week. Customs and Border Protection says its agents
can process fewer than 20 asylum claims a day at Eagle Pass.


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