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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2016, file photo, pedestrians cross into Juarez, Mexico as U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers of the Special Response Team unit, patrol the Paso del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso, Texas. The U.S. government on Friday, March 6, 2020, says it is sending active duty personnel to two official border crossings to deal with asylum seekers in case a federal appeals court strikes down one of the Trump administration's key policies. The deployment is in response to crowds that gathered at an El Paso crossing last Friday after a federal appeals court temporarily struck down the program known as “Remain in Mexico." (AP Photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2016, file photo, pedestrians cross into Juarez, Mexico as U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers of the Special Response Team unit, patrol the Paso del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso, Texas. The U.S. government on Friday, March 6, 2020, says it is sending active duty personnel to two official border crossings to deal with asylum seekers in case a federal appeals court strikes down one of the Trump administration's key policies. The deployment is…

March 6, 2020

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US sending military police to two border crossings
March 6, 2020 11:38 a.m.

US sending military police to two border crossings

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. government says it is sending 160 military police and engineers to two official border crossings to deal with asylum seekers in case a federal appeals court strikes down one of the Trump administration's key policies.