Look at the troops that go to the US-Mexico border

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has been dismissed as the migrant caravan has slowly crossed to Mexico towards the United States, still about 900 miles away, many have missed. Here is what we have known about the military mission:

WHAT ARE HOLDERS?

More than 7,000 active soldiers were sent to Texas, Arizona and California. These are the armed forces, the military police, the attack helicopter battalion, the various communications, medical and central units, combat engineers, designers and public affairs units.

On Friday, one week after the Pentagon admitted that Defense Minister Jim Mattis had approved the request of the Ministry of Homeland Security for Military Support, the deployment of the troops was still unfolding and about 3,500 in the southwest section. Of these, about 2,250 active soldiers are in Texas, 1100 Marines in Camp Pendleton, California, and are less than 200 in Arizona. About 100 soldiers are at the border at the port crossing, near McAllen, Texas.

Most of the troops are used to facilitate the movement of border guard agents, leave them, feed them and provide protection.

WHAT IS THE ROLE IN THE DECISION?

The Pentagon is convinced that active soldiers will not be prosecuted, which is prohibited under the Constitution Posse Comitatus Act. Teams can not arrest people at the border. Their main task is to support Border Patrol.

This means that the military will transport the border guard's agents along the border and along the border, helping them to further constraints and barriers along the border, to assist in communication, and to provide certain security for cross-border camps. The army also provides border guards with medical supplies, pre-packaged food, and temporary housing.

THE TROPK LIVES?

Yes, there will be many, especially for self-defense.

The military police on the border will be armed, though not unlucky opportunities to deal with unexpected conflicts. Pentagon officials say they are planning the worst scenario of violence that may force soldiers to rely on their workouts to make double decisions in defense or civilians. Representatives could, for example, be provided with military security for military engineers who place barricades in places where there are no border guard agents to provide protection.

One day after Trump suggested that soldiers on the southwestern border could open fire when immigrants throw rocks on them, he insisted on Friday that it means that rock-throwers are arrested. "I did not say" shoot, "she told reporters in the White House. However, the scenario of violence is grinding at the risk of using active security troops for domestic security: their mission does not include the confrontation of immigrants, but some may not be able to avoid it.

The commander in charge of the military operation, Terrence O 'Shaughnessy Air Force, head of the United States North Command, said migrant management would be primarily the task of the Customs and Border Protection Agency. But he acknowledged that there could be "potential interactions" between immigrants and soldiers. In the light of this possibility, soldiers will be "fully trained in how to do this," he said.

Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Davis, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said the army would not disclose the details of its rules on violence.

CONVENTION SUPPORTS MISSION?

The members of the congress focused mainly on the mid-term elections of Tuesday, the reaction was mild. A group of high-ranking democrats wrote a letter to Mattis on Thursday on military missions and asked for answers to their costs. The posting of active soldiers – they say – "only exacerbates potential unnecessary chances."

Chuck Hagel, a former Republican Senator and Army War Veteran who served as defense secretary under President Barack Obama, told CNN that the mission was "foolish" because "there is no need, no threat".

Martin Dempsey, a retired army who served as President of the Supreme Command Joseph Dunford, has set a dual purpose on the border mission. Twitter on Thursday wrote a military mission about the "squeezing up of" overburdened soldiers and marines, "which would" be much worse "if disproportionate force was applied to the threat at the border.

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