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Pentagon rejected request for troops to act as emergency law enforcement at border


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Pentagon rejected request for troops to act as emergency law enforcement at border

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)When the Trump administration first asked the Pentagon to send troops to the southern border, they wanted them to perform emergency law enforcement functions, CNN has learned. 

The Pentagon said no. 

According to two defense official familiar with the request, the Department of Homeland Security asked that the Pentagon provide a reserve force that could be called upon to provide "crowd and traffic control" and safeguard Customs and Border Protection personnel at the border to counter a group of Central American migrants walking to the US border to request asylum. 

The Pentagon rejected the request on October 26, according to one of the officials, even as it signed off on providing DHS with air and logistics support, medical personnel and engineers.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/02/politics/white-house-pentagon-troops-border/index.html?utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_content=2018-11-02T21%3A21%3A30&utm_medium=social 
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