1,500 active-duty troops being sent to southern border ahead of expected migrant surge
Title 42 restrictions are ending on May 11. The Department of Defense plans to send 1,500 additional active -duty troops to support the security mission along the U.S.-Mexico border for a temporary three-month period, according to a U.S. official, ahead of an expected surge of migrant s with the end of Title 42 restrictions on May 11. They will join 2,500 National Guard members already there on an active-duty status. A member of the Texas Army National Guard asks a migrant from China to come out of his hiding place after the man and others were smuggled across the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico, in Fronton, Texas, on April 5, 2023. Staff/Reuters MORE: Biden administration to launch regional processing centers for migrants throughout Central and South America Their mission will be to help with ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support. The move comes after an executive order from President Joe Biden last week that authorized the s...