IMMIGRATION
Texas' border lawmakers say they're in the dark on troop deployment
A day after federal officials announced that active-duty military will descend on the border to thwart the caravan of Central American asylum-seekers slowly approaching the United States, border lawmakers said they haven't been given details about the estimated 5,200-troop deployment.
By JULIÁN AGUILAR and TEO ARMUS, The Texas Tribune
Posted 11/6/18
Ask a border lawmaker from Texas how much President Donald Trump’s decision to send the military to the U.S.-Mexico border will cost taxpayers, and the response could be a shrug of the shoulders. …
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