US sending military police to Texas border crossing

El Paso (AP) – The U.S. government says it’s sending 160 military police and engineers to two official border crossings, one of them in Texas. It’s a precaution aimed at possible asylum seekers in case a federal appeals court strikes down one of the Trump administration’s key immigration policies. The deployment of active duty personnel to ports of entry in El Paso and San Diego, California is a response to crowds that gathered at an El Paso crossing shortly after a federal appeals court temporarily struck down the program known as “Remain in Mexico.” That program requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their cases progress through courts in the U.S.