The Biden administration announced plans to deploy 1,500 members of the US military to the southern border ahead of an expected surge of undocumented migrants once pandemic-era restrictions are lifted later this month. The Department of Homeland Security made the request to the Pentagon, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin approved the deployment Tuesday. The military members will not serve in a law enforcement capacity and will not interact with migrants. Instead, they will be tasked with administrative jobs currently being performed by Department of Homeland Security personnel, who would then be freed up for enforcement duties. “For 90 days, these 1,500 military personnel will fill critical capability gaps, such as ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support,” until US Customs and Border Protection can obtain contractors, Brigadier General Pat Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement. -------- Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2TwO8Gm Subscribe to Bloomberg Originals: https://www.youtube.com/BloombergTV Bloomberg Quicktake brings you global social video spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world. Connect with us on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bloomberg Breaking News on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BloombergQuicktakeNow Twitter: https://twitter.com/quicktake Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quicktake Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quicktake