Trump Ordered Troops to the Border, But They’re Doing Busywork

In April, President Donald Trump announced he was ordering National Guard troops to the U.S. border with Mexico.

“We’re going to do some things militarily,” Trump said. “Until we can have a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military.”

Here, in this dilapidated former mining town on the Mexican border, that vague directive has been translated — at least officially — to orders to help quell the smuggling operations operating out of Aqua Prieta across the fortified fence and in what is still...