Mattis extends border troop mission until end of January

[DonViejo]

By WESLEY MORGAN 12/04/2018 05:35 PM EST

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has signed an order extending the mission of active-duty troops on the U.S.-Mexico border through the end of January, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.

The deployment was set to expire Dec. 15, but the Department of Homeland Security requested an extension late last week. The brief statement noted that the extension was approved "in response to migrant caravan arrivals."

President Donald Trump ordered the deployment just ahead of last month's midterm elections, amid a flurry of tweets about migrant caravans heading north through Mexico toward the United States.

Some 5,600 active-duty troops are deployed for the mission to Texas, Arizona and California, most of them unarmed and playing a supporting role to civilian agencies under Homeland Security, such as Customs and Border Protection. The number of troops deployed has already dipped slightly from a peak of more than 5,800 last month. Some troops have been assisting CBP agents in closing border crossings between California and Tijuana, where one of the large migrant caravans has encamped.

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[spanone]

1. Mattis is complicit. The farce continues.

[Renew Deal]

2. Those poor people will be freezing in a desert over a political stunt

[COLGATE4]

3. And a very Merry Fucking Xmas

to all these servicepeople who will be missing Xmas with friends and family while 'guarding' the border against a nonexistent threat.

[bdamomma]

4. Sickening to

have our troops there for nothing, to take them away from their families.

What is with Mattis??? playing our troops for fools??

[Gothmog]

5. These troops wil miss both Thanksgiving and Christmas due to this stunt by trump