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Latest "border deployment" stories
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Democrats want to know why active-duty troops are still on the southern US border
More than 2,000 active-duty troops are still deployed there, months after President Trump said there was an imminent immigration threat.
Pentagon extends border deployment for active duty troops through September
Active duty troops were first sent to the border in October 2018 to secure it from an arriving caravan of migrants.
By Tara Copp
Border town invaded by Pancho Villa rejects talk of American troops
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has cited Villa's 1916 raid of Columbus as an example of why President Donald Trump was deploying active-duty troops along the U.S.-Mexico border.
DoD drops border deployment name, no longer calling it ‘Faithful Patriot’
The Pentagon says it will stop using the operation name for the U.S. military mission on the southern border.
By Kyle Rempfer
‘I didn’t say shoot’: Trump says migrants will be arrested, not shot, if they throw rocks
The president seemed to walk back earlier remarks that troops should consider rock-throwing akin to using guns.
By Tara Copp