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Latest "National Guard Border Mission" stories
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Pentagon’s US-Mexico border mission extends for another year
Up to 2,500 troops are authorized through September 2023.
This is what it’ll take to end the military’s border mission
Federalized troops have been deploying to the border since 2018.
Texas Guard’s border mission nearly out of cash, top general says
The cost for Operation Lone Star, which has deployed 10,000 service members, has ballooned to more than $2 billion a year.
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, AP
Pentagon: Troop contingent on border ‘pretty much peaked’
The number of U.S. active-duty troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border has “pretty much peaked” at the current total of 5,800, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official said Thursday.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press