The US Department of Homeland Security, DHS has requested 1,000 additional soldiers to help manage the migrant crisis in Texas. The Pentagon said, request comes amid growing outcry over conditions in migrant detention facilities.<br />'' It stated that they had been asked to authorize the Texas National Guard to lend support to Customs and Border Protection, CBP officials, who are overwhelmed by the high number of refugees crossing the southern US border.<br />'' <br />'' Thousands of active duty and National Guard troops have already been deployed for months along the US-Mexico border to support immigration officials.<br />'' <br />'' The DHS has been criticized after a report from its inspector general, a watchdog, last week warned about dangerous overcrowding in migrant detention facilities in Texas.<br />''  <br />