Pentagon approves 320 troops for illegal immigrant babysitting duties
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Monday, April 29, 2019
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has approved a Homeland Security request to assign 320 “personnel†to babysit illegal immigrants, driving them, feeding them and checking on their welfare, the Pentagon announced Monday.
The goal is to free up Border Patrol agents currently assigned to those duties so they can get back to patrolling the front lines.
The troops Mr. Shanahan has assigned the new duties will not be engaged in actual law enforcement and there will be Homeland Security officers present to handle actual custody of illegal immigrants, and to provide protection to the troops themselves, said Lt. Col. Jamie Davis.
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