Pentagon gets request to extend Mexico border deployment
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- The Pentagon has received a request from within the Trump administration to extend the deployment of troops to the border with Mexico.
- The troops deployment was initially scheduled to end on Dec. 15.
- US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who would have to sign off, suggested earlier this week such a request was being developed.
- Critics, including Democrats in Congress, have derided the deployment as a political stunt.
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