Acting Defence Sec Shanahan Vows Military Won’t Leave “Until Border is Secure”
On Friday the Pentagon transferred $1.5 billion from other programs including funding for an Afghanistan-program to fund the construction of a US-Mexico border wall, to stop the surge in numbers of migrants arriving at the US border that Donald Trump has called a crisis and declared a national emergency over.
Patrick Shanahan said that he intends to speed up plans to secure the border while visiting a Texas border city, The Hill reported.
The administration has said troops will stay at such posts until DHS “no longer requires support to secure the southern border,” The Hill report says.