Trump Says Border Troops Could Reach 15,000, Catching Pentagon Off Guard

President Trump said Wednesday that he is willing to send as many as 15,000 troops to the border in anticipation of a caravan of Central American migrants making its way north. “As far as the caravan is concerned our military is out, we have about 5,000-8 [thousand], we’ll go up to anywhere between 10 [thousand] and 15,000 military personnel on top of border patrol, ICE and everybody else on the border,” he told reporters. The Pentagon announced 5,200 active duty troops will be sent to the border on top of 2,100 National Guardsmen already assisting border patrol with tasks that do not include physically stopping illegal border crossers.

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