President Donald Trump is already enacting his sweeping immigration crackdown, with plans to send around 10,000 troops to the southern border to help Border Patrol agents curb immigration. In this context, Latino advocacy organizations are pleading with the Republican leader to enact balanced and humane immigration policies.
The news of the deployments to the southern border was announced Wednesday afternoon. The Defense Department is set to initially send at least 1,500 additional active-duty ground troops to the southern border in what could be the first of several waves of deployments, said acting defense secretary Robert Salesses. They will join the 2,500 National Guard and reserve troops that are already there, The Washington Post reported. "This is just the beginning," he said in a statement Wednesday morning.
