US plans to send 1,500 soldiers to Mexico border

The administration of US President Joe Biden plans to send 1,500 additional soldiers to the United States border with Mexico as the country prepares for the lifting of contentious, pandemic-era restrictions later this month.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security said it had made a request for the Department of Defense to authorise a 90-day deployment of additional troops due to “an anticipated increase in migration” at the southwest border.

The additional personnel will perform “non-law enforcement duties”, DHS said, including data entry and warehouse support. “This support will free up DHS law enforcement personnel to perform their critical law enforcement missions,” it said.

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