{"id":11603,"date":"2019-01-15T01:14:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T01:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/15\/dod-extends-border-deployment-to-september\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:22:37","slug":"dod-extends-border-deployment-to-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/01\/15\/dod-extends-border-deployment-to-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon extends border deployment for active duty troops through September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Pentagon announced late Monday that it is extending the mission<\/a> of active duty troops to the Mexico border through September, marking almost a year-long domestic deployment of forces there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The approximately 4,500 active duty and National Guard forces now on the border were first sent there in late October 2018 to meet a request from President Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security <\/a>to secure border entry points from thousands of immigrants traveling north through Mexico to seek asylum in the U.S. Several units have rotated in and out during that time, and have been tasked to lay concertina wire, barriers and help assist border patrol agents<\/a> at points in Texas, Arizona and California.<\/p>\n\n\n\t