Pentagon Says Border Troops Will Increase

With 5,200 troops on their way to the nation’s southwest border, the Pentagon said Tuesday that number is expected to swell.

“What I can confirm is there will be additional force over and above the 5,239,” U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command head Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy told reporters, according to The Hill.

The final number is “undetermined,” he added, subject to change as officials “refine the requests” from the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol.

And the cost is “unknown at this time,” he said, The Hill reported.

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