Los Angeles, Dec. 20 -- About 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton in Southern California are being deployed to Yuma, Arizona, to support security along the U.S.-Mexico border, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
The report quoted words from the base as saying that the troops' mission would focus on reinforcing barriers, placing signs, and monitoring and detection along the border since military personnel are not authorized to conduct civilian law enforcement activities such as search, seizure, or arrests.
However, the report said such deployments had been common over the past year under U.S. President Donald Trump, as some swaths of land along the Arizona border, including near Yuma, had been designated as a National Defense Area (NDA) as p...