Secret Service sent to southern border

Published May 21, 2019 3:25am ET



U.S. Secret Service personnel have been sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to handle migrants attempting to enter the U.S.

The Homeland Security Department has already sent some officers and plans to send more soon, according to a Homeland Security document obtained by the Daily Beast. The plan was created after then-Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen requested each unit of the agency recruit volunteers that would be shipped to the southern border.

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