US President Donald Trump said today he wants to send up to 4,000 troops to the border with Mexico, giving a first indication of the size of the surprise deployment.
Trump said the National Guard deployment would range "anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000," and he would "probably keep" personnel there until his border wall is built "or a large portion of them."
That could spell a long deployment, with costs that Trump admitted the White House was still "looking at."
Trump has been praised by Republicans for the decision, but Democrats described it as "rash and politically motivated."
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