Defense
- The Department of
Defense delivered thousands of pounds of traditional Thanksgiving food to deployed units. - Thanksgiving was a "light-duty day" for US troops at the US-Mexico border, a reprieve after weeks of running razor wire and erecting barriers.
- The US military personnel deployed to the border are at the center of a heated debate over immigration, as they were sent to help Customs and Border Protection secure the southern border as migrant caravans approach.
Thousands of US troops spent the Thanksgiving holiday not with their families but at the US-Mexico border, where they are awaiting the arrival of migrant caravans alongside the border patrol personnel they were deployed to support and, if necessary, defend.
The Pentagon provided Thanksgiving meals to American troops at the border, as well as those abroad in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other parts of the world.
These 12 photos show what the holiday looked like for some of the US troops at the border.