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Donald Trump orders 5200 troops to the Mexico border to ward off any refugee approach

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The US military will deploy over 5200 troops, including soldiers who will be armed, to bolster President Donald Trump's efforts to secure the border with Mexico, a senior US general says.

"I think the president has made it clear that border security is national security," General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, head of the US military's Northern Command, told a news conference in Washington on Monday (Tuesday AEDT).

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