The troops will remain at the border for 90 days to aid U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers.
President Joe Biden approved 1,500 more troops for deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday.
The Department of Defense (DOD) agreed to supply the additional troops at the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) request. The troops will remain at the border for 90 days to aid U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers.
The decision comes roughly a week before the Trump-era policy known as Title 42 is set to expire May 11, the same day the federal COVID-19 public health emergency expires. Title 42 is a provision of the Public Health Service Act of 1944 that was invoked in 2020 at the start of the pandemic to block most asylum seekers from entering the United States on the southern border because of the high risks of coronavirus transmission.
