SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration has quietly added military surveillance cameras at the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The cameras and deployment of 540 more troops come despite a nine-month decline in apprehensions that indicate fewer people are crossing illegally. The Associated Press obtained internal military documents saying the Department of Defense provided 60 mobile surveillance cameras this month at the request of the Department of Homeland Security. A Customs and Border Protection spokesman says the request for cameras wasn’t “based on border flow numbers” but on rising coronavirus cases in Mexico. Mexico has a fraction of the number of infections that have been confirmed in the U.S.
