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President Donald Trump is preparing to send around 10,000 troops to the southern border, and Border Patrol agents have been directed to deny entry to asylum seekers if they “traveled through a country with a communicable disease,” according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection briefing document obtained by The Washington Post.
The order does not list any specific disease, essentially closing the border to anyone attempting to exercise the right to seek humanitarian refuge under U.S. law.
To start, the Defense Department is expected to order at least 1,000 additional U.S. troops to the southern border in what could be the first of several waves of deployments, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the discussion who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The CBP briefing, delivered Tuesday to senior staff at the agency’s headquarters in Washington by newly appointed Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks, instructs U.S. agents to use an extraordinary emergency authority to close the border. The only two Border Patrol officials who can authorize the release of an asylum seeker into the United States with a pending humanitarian claim are Banks and his deputy.