Author: Paige

By ROBERT BURNS, COLLEEN LONG and JILL COLVIN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is deploying 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation a week before nationwide elections in which President Donald Trump wants voters to focus on what he calls an “invasion” — a slow-moving caravan of Central American migrants. The number of troops being sent is more than double the 2,000 who are in Syria fighting the Islamic State group. Two caravans of migrants, traveling mostly on foot, are still hundreds of miles from the U.S. border with Mexico. Most are poor, carrying the belongings…

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