Pentagon sending 5,200 troops to border week before midterms
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The Pentagon said it’s 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 U.S.The number of troops being deployed is more than double the 2,000 who are in Syria fighting the Islamic State group.Trump, eager to keep voters […]
