US to send military at border

by VTV430 October 2018 Last updated at 16:40 PM

Soldiers from the 541st Sapper Company prepare to board an Air Force C-130J Super Hercules Oct. 30, 2018, at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. (US Air Force photo by Airman First Class Daniel A. Hernandez)

VTV.vn - A week out from the midterm elections, the Pentagon said on Monday it is sending 5,200 troops, some armed, to the Southwest border this week in an extraordinary military operation to stop Central American migrants traveling north in two caravans that were still hundreds of miles from the U.S.

President Donald Trump is eager to focus voters on immigration in the lead-up to the elections, stepped up his warnings about the caravans. This mobilization would increase the number of US military personnel at the Southern frontier to roughly 7,000 about 5,000 more than America has in Syria to fight ISIS and approximately one-third the size of the entire Border Patrol force at the US-Mexico line.