Democrats, Republicans criticize Biden for sending 1,500 troops to the US-Mexico border: ‘Unacceptable’

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have criticized President Biden's decision to deploy 1,500 troops to the 1,951-mile border shared between the U.S. and Mexico.

"The Biden administration’s militarization of the border is unacceptable," said Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Chair Bob Menendez, D-N.J.

Menendez added, "There is already a humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere, and deploying military personnel only signals that migrants are a threat that require our nation’s troops to contain. Nothing could be further from the truth."