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US Deploying Hundreds More to Border Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

Carla Babb

   The U.S. military is deploying hundreds more troops to the country's
   southern border amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to protect the
   nation from potentially infected migrants, according to the commander
   of U.S. Northern Command.

   "As we look at trying to peel off the external potential for COVID
   exposure to our U.S. citizens, there's actually an increased demand
   signal, not a decreased demand signal, for securing the southern
   border," General Terrence O'Shaughnessy told reporters Wednesday.

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