{"id":594,"date":"2019-04-26T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/?p=594"},"modified":"2019-04-26T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:01:43","slug":"pentagon-set-to-expand-military-role-along-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/04\/26\/pentagon-set-to-expand-military-role-along-southern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon set to expand military role along southern border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Pentagon is preparing to approve a loosening of rules that bar troops from interacting with migrants entering the United States, expanding the military&#8217;s involvement in President Donald Trump&#8217;s operation along the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Defense Department officials have recommended that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approve a new request from the Department of Homeland Security to provide military lawyers, cooks and drivers to assist with handling a surge of migrants along the southern border.-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/pentagon-set-to-expand-military-role-along-southern-border-1.578607\">Stripes<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-text=\"Pentagon set to expand military role along southern border\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/pentagon-set-to-expand-military-role-along-southern-border-1.578607\" data-hashtags=\"BorderCrisis\" data-show-count=\"false\">Tweet<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is preparing to approve a loosening of rules that bar troops from interacting with migrants entering the United States, expanding the military&#8217;s involvement in President Donald Trump&#8217;s operation along the southern border. Senior Defense Department officials have recommended that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approve a new request from the Department of Homeland<a href=\"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/04\/26\/pentagon-set-to-expand-military-role-along-southern-border\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}