WATCH: Thousands of US troops to be deployed to Mexico border
Image: Screengrab from YouTube/TSgt Nick Kibbey via Storyful
The United States Defense Department announced on Monday, Oct. 29 that it would send 5,200 troops to America’s southern border by the end of the week.
This footage, shared by TSgt Nick Kibbey, shows crew and equipment preparing to leave Fort Knox, Kentucky, to be deployed to the southwest border region, as part of the effort to support border security, in an operation dubbed Faithful Patriot.
The troops are expected to join 2,000 National Guard members already deployed there, assembling a force exceeding the U.S. military footprint in Iraq and Syria, as per a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday, Oct. 30.
The move came as President Donald Trump repeatedly called attention to a migrant caravan moving through Central America, using speeches and tweets to refer to it as an “invasion.”
The caravan was hundreds of miles from the border in late October and was not expected to arrive there for two months. KM
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