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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

Trump could be sending 10,000 troops to the border with Mexico as part of ‘national emergency’

As many as 10,000 troops could eventually be stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Donald Trump’s sweeping campaign to carry out mass deportations and declare a national emergency at the international boundary line.

Though the operation will initially involve about 1,500 additional troops joining the roughly 2,500 already at the border, the total force could swell to 10,000 people, the Pentagon told reporters on Wednesday.

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