President Donald Trump arguably redefined the pre-presidency by hitting the ground running before he officially returned to the Oval Office as president on Monday. As reported by CNN — you gotta love it — on Wednesday, thousands of additional active duty U.S. troops have been ordered to the Southern Border, just two days after Trump ordered the Pentagon to increase its active presence there.
According to officials familiar with the situation, there are already roughly 2,200 active duty forces at the border as part of Joint Task Force-North, U.S. Northern Command’s border mission to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s work by "performing mostly logistical and bureaucratic tasks like data entry, detection and monitoring, and vehicle maintenance."
Trump is fully aware that bureaucratic tasks like date entry and vehicle maintenance isn't the problem.
Yet, while it's not yet clear which specific troops will deployed to the border this week, they will reportedly be assisting in command-and-control centers, and providing more intelligence specialists to assess threats and illegal immigration flows, according to sources familiar with the planning.
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According to officials familiar with the situation, there are already roughly 2,200 active duty forces at the border as part of Joint Task Force-North, U.S. Northern Command’s border mission to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s work by "performing mostly logistical and bureaucratic tasks like data entry, detection and monitoring, and vehicle maintenance."
Trump is fully aware that bureaucratic tasks like date entry and vehicle maintenance isn't the problem.
Yet, while it's not yet clear which specific troops will deployed to the border this week, they will reportedly be assisting in command-and-control centers, and providing more intelligence specialists to assess threats and illegal immigration flows, according to sources familiar with the planning.
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