Pentagon sending 1,500 troops to southern border, USAF planes on deportation flights

Fulfilling a campaign promise by the now-commander in chief, the U.S. military is sending 1,500 more troops to the southwest border, the first of what Pentagon leaders anticipate will be “many additional missions.”Those troops—1,000 soldiers and 500 Marines—will join some 2,500 troops that have been at the border for months to help build physical barriers and complete other border missions, a senior military official told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday. The first