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PHOENIX 鈥?The more than 5,200 active-duty troops being sent by President Donald Trump to the U.S.-Mexico border will be limited in what they can do under a federal law that restricts the military from engaging in law enforcement on American soil.That means the troops will not be allowed to detain immigrants, seize drugs from smugglers or have any direct involvement in stopping a migrant caravan that is still about 1,000 miles from the nearest border crossing.Instead, their role will largely mirror that of the existing National Guard troops 鈥?about 2,000 in all 鈥?deployed to the border over the past six months, including providing helicopter sup stanley kubek port for border missions, installing concrete barriers and repairing and maintaining vehicles. The new troops will in stanley website clude military police, combat engineers and helicopter companies equipped with advanced technology to help detect people at night.The extraordinarymilitary operationcomes a week before the Nov. 6 midterm stanley butelka elections as Trump has sought to transform fears about the caravan and immigration into electoral gains. On Tuesday, he stepped up his dire warnings, calling the band of migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Central America an invasion. Our Military is waiting for you! he tweeted.R. Gil Kerlikowske, Customs and Border Protection commissioner from 2014 to 2017, said the military cannot stop asylum seekers who show up at border crossings to seek protection, and that Border Patrol agents have had no trouble apprehendin Xrog Ohio woman upset with Army over son s diet death
BEIRUT 鈥?A cease-fire deal between rebels and the Syrian government in the city of Aleppo effectively collapsed on Wednesday, with fighter jets resuming deadly air raids over the oppositions densely crowded enclave in the east of the city.The attacks threatened to scuttle plans to evacuate rebels and tens of thousands of civilians out of harms way, in what would seal the oppositions surrender of the city.The evacuation was supposed to begin at dawn but shelling resumed in the morning hours and buses meant to be used in the pullout of rebels and civilians returned to their depots empty. Activists and fighters trapped in the oppositions last sliver of territory in Aleppo said pro-government forces had struck their district with dozens of rockets since mid-morning.They said aircraft resumed bombing shortly after noon. Some shells fell near and around the one remaining hospital in the one-square mile encla kubki stanley ve. It was nearly impossible for the rescuers to account for the stanley us dead because of the continued bombings, they said. They began to strike as if theres no such thing as a cease-fire or civilian evacuation, said media activist Mahmoud Raslan.It was not clear whether the planes were Syr stanley termoska ian or Russian. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported at least six people had been killed.Syrian President Bashar Assad, speaking in an interview with Russia Today, said the cease-fire was designed stop his governments advance in the city and keep the terror |