The 800 is just an advance party to prepare for the deployment of many thousands more troops, likely 8-10K.
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“The 800 is just an advance party”
Even they could not deploy until there was confidence in the Intel about where along the border the caravan planned to cross.
When the family separation issue was hot earlier this year, the military was tasked to start planning capacity for a surge of detainees - tens of thousands.
By now they should have personnel and resources identified for such contingencies.
It still sounds like the military is going to reinforce Border Patrol with logistics - no indication yet of using troops to apprehend. But like you say, the advance party could get the bases set up for a larger element to quickly fall in on.
How do you know
Do you have solid confirmation to support that statement, or is that just your best guess?
Where do you get that information?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/13/watch-caravan-migrants-arrive-at-southern-border-scale-fence/ So where are these thousands of soldiers and Marines? Got any new ideas?