US troops at Mexican border to ‘start returning home’ two weeks after midterm elections

US Army and Marine engineers deployed to the nation’s southern border ahead of the arrival of a caravan of thousands of refugees and migrants are set to start returning home. The first troops who were deployed to the region as Donald Trump warned of the migrant caravan’s imminent arrival will start heading home “in the coming days,” Politico reported, long before many of those migrants are able to reach the US-Mexico border — and just two weeks after the 2018 midterm elections. The White House did not immediately respond to questions about whether or not it supported redeploying those troops before a previously set 15 December deadline.

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