US sending 5,200 troops to border, double Syria deployment
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The Pentagon is deploying 5,200 troops to America’s southwest border in an extraordinary military operation a week before nationwide elections in which President Donald Trump wants voters to focus on a slow-moving “invasion” of Central American migrants.The number of troops being sent is more than double the 2,000 who are in Syria fighting the Islamic State group.Two caravans of would-be migrants, mostly on foot and seeking asylum, are still hundreds of miles […]
