U.S. officials say active duty military troops are arriving in El Paso, Texas, and in San Diego on Thursday evening.

Hours after the Pentagon announced that it would send 1,500 active duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico, reports surfaced that the number was actually 10,000.

"I paid them so much money, which I had borrowed," he said. "The idea was to get across and walk to a point where we would be picked up and taken to Long Beach where my sister lives, but the smugglers ...