TSA is sending hundreds of workers, including air marshals, to the southern border

Immigrant children.
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The Transportation Security Administration will deploy hundreds of employees to the southern U.S. border to help handle incoming migrants, reports CNN.

The TSA workers will include air marshals, per an internal email viewed by CNN, but the deployment will also include up to 175 law enforcement officials and 400 workers from Security Ops.

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Marianne is The Week’s Social Media Editor. She is a native Tennessean and recent graduate of Ohio University, where she studied journalism and political science. Marianne has previously written for The Daily Beast, The Crime Report, and The Moroccan Times.