Protection from a caravan of immigrants will cost taxpayers $ 200 million: what they will spend

Critics say President Trump is spending military money on political tricks before the midterm elections, at a time when the Pentagon’s budget is in trouble.

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The total cost of military activity at the border, including the cost of the National Guard forces that are there from April of this year, could exceed $ 200 million by the end of 2018 and increase significantly if the deployment of military forces continues next year, according to estimates and data from the Pentagon.

The deployment of 15 000 troops between the US and Mexico, which are potentially equal in number to the US military presence in Afghanistan, takes place after Trump took office as president.

Although military spending is only a tiny part of the $ 716 billion annual defense budget, they are weighty after the Trump administration called on the military to cut unnecessary spending. The White House recently ordered the Pentagon to cut the budget for the military next year by about $ 33 billion dollars in response to the largest increase in federal deficit in six years.

Veterans and Democratic lawmakers complained that Trump was spending military money on political tricks before the mid-term elections on Tuesday, at a time when the Pentagon’s budget was in trouble.

Retired General Martin Dempsey, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described the deployment in Twitter as "waste."

The first part of a caravan of migrants heading to the United States has arrived in the capital of Mexico, Mexico City.

Migrants to the nearest US border crossing need to go about 805 kilometers. Also, several thousand more people are located to the south and continue their way to the north in the hope of obtaining asylum in the United States.

Recall in October previous migrant caravan left Honduras and initially consisted of approximately 2 thousand people, now their number has increased to an estimated 4 thousand.

President of the United States Donald Trump threatened Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala with a halt to financial aidif they do not stop the accession of their citizens to the caravan and their illegal advance to the territory of the United States.

Additionally, he threatened to close the border with Mexicoif the country does not solve the problem of the approaching caravan.

19 October it became known that US and Mexico have agreed to use a joint plan to solve the problem of the caravan of migrants.

According to this plan, which was developed over several months, Mexico turned to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with a request to establish shelters along its southern border with Central America.

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