Great news. Is there some reason they are not being sent to New Mexico?
“Is there some reason they are not being sent to New Mexico?”
We’d just have to speculate, because DoD is not releasing the details of the deployments ahead of time.
I’d guess that they are prioritizing a few things:
- The highest volume Ports of Entry
- The most likely places the caravans will attempt
- Spreading the deployments along the border, to minimize the reaction distance, if/when the caravans change direction.
Ft. Bliss, Texas is a major installation sitting almost on the border in El Paso, just the other side of town from where the New Mexico border starts. They can probably cover that the 200 miles of New Mexico’s sector of the border, without deploying any troops from elsewhere.