PakNews: Pentagon sending 5,200 troops to border week before midterms

Wednesday, 31 October 2018

Pentagon sending 5,200 troops to border week before midterms

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants moving north in slow-moving caravans that are still hundreds of miles from the U.S.