Pentagon Sending Another 3,750 Troops to Mexico Border

Soldiers from the Kentucky-based 19th Engineer Battalion work in a public park in Laredo, Texas, where they are installing barbed and concertina-wire on Nov. 17, 2018. Thomas Watkins/AFP/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon is sending 3,750 additional troops to the southwest border with Mexico for three months to support border agents, the Department of Defense said on Feb. 3.

The deployment will raise the total number of active-duty forces supporting Customs and Border Protection agents there to about 4,350, it said.