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The United States will deploy 1,500 additional troops to the border with Mexico, the Pentagon says, ahead of an expected surge of migrants when Covid-era restrictions are lifted next week. "For 90 days, these 1,500 military personnel, who will be sourced from the active duty component, will fill critical capability gaps, such as ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support," spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder tells reporters during a press conference. SOUNDBITE
In answer to a question from a military veteran, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he will let commanders decide the role women and transgender people will play in the U.S. military. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stressed his intention of building a wall along the southern border of the USA and Mexico, as part of his 10 point plan for tackling illegal immigration, during a rally Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio on Thursday.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump boldly declared last summer that he would “build a great wall” along the border between the U.S. and Mexico, and that “nobody builds walls better than [him].” Months later, Trump continues to stand by these claims and insists that Mexico will pay for the wall’s construction.
Mexican security interrupts construction of a suspected drug tunnel being built under a house near the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
A makeshift migrant camp looks nearly empty in Mexico's Matamoros, at the border with Brownsville, Texas, where Democrat US President Joe Biden is expected to meet border patrol and other law enforcement agents. Also heading to the border is Republican former president Donald Trump, who will be about 300 miles (480 kilometers) to the west in Eagle Pass. The Texas showdown comes at a time when record numbers of migrant crossings into the United States are posing a threat to Biden's chances of preventing a Trump comeback in November's presidential election. IMAGES
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