The Defense Department has been asked to put up more concertina wire and conduct expanded surveillance along the U.S.-Mexico border, which will likely require “several thousand” more troops to be deployed, the Pentagon’s acting leader said Tuesday.
Should President Donald Trump declare a national emergency at the border, as he has threatened to do, the Pentagon has prepared recommendations on how it could support the response, including how best to use military construction funding, according to Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.
He said that a larger troop presence at the border is likely. The Department of Homeland Security recently asked the Pentagon for additional support for the mission, which already calls for service members to be deployed through September.
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