The measure will cover two key cities along the US-Mexico border and will be taken in response to potential court rulings that could undermine the White House's Migration Protection Protocols, which have in recent months reined in to a great extent the flow of undocumented migrants and drug trafficking.
The US government is sending 160 troops to help border guards block the migrant influx expected in the event of the Court of Appeals reversing the administration's Migrant Protection Protocols – a document that has sent around 60,000 newcomers back to Mexico to wait for their US asylum hearings there.
Quite a few from the migrant crowds waiting in Mexico dashed to the border on 28 February, when the court declared the MPP programme unlawful, but then, the decision was put on hold until 12 March, pending Supreme Court involvement. The court ruled to allow the MPP programme to continue in Texas, while for the rest of the country, Department of Justice officials asked the Supreme Court to extend the delay of the appeal.
The additional troops are viewed as not only a necessary reinforcement of border controls ahead of the projected surge in migrants reaching the border on 12 March, but also a measure that could prevent the migration of people with diseases akin to the Chinese-originated coronavirus.
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency's “mission is to secure our nation's borders, and measures such as the Crisis Response…
