The Division of Protection (DOD) is sending 1,140 further U.S. troops to the southern border of the USA to assist bolster the efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP) to regulate the inflow of unlawful immigrants.
“The DOD continues to work with the Division of Homeland Safety to fill essential capabilities gaps on the southern border in accordance with President Trump’s Govt Order, ‘Defending the American Folks Towards Invasion,'” U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) stated.
There are presently 4,300 U.S. active-duty troops on the southern border, and an extra 1,140 troops will deliver the entire to five,440 active-duty service members.
USNORTHCOM stated the extra troops will present assist to joint activity drive operations, together with command and management of sustainable models and coordination of logistical assist, discipline feeding assist websites and management of logistical motion.
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United States Marine Corps troops patrol the U.S.-Mexico border space as seen from San Diego Feb. 7, 2025. (Carlos Moreno/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photos)
The Military models being deployed will come from the one hundred and first Division Sustainment Brigade, Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Alpha Firm, 189th Division Sustainment Help Battalion (DSSB), Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Bravo Firm, 68th DSSB, Fort Carson, Colorado; Charlie Firm, 129th DSSB, Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Headquarters and Headquarters Firm, 264th Fight Sustainment Help Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; seventieth Motion Management Group, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia; and 564th Quartermaster Firm, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.
The Trump administration has designated eight gangs and cartels, together with Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel and MS-13, international terrorist organizations in a transfer that expands the U.S. authorities’s capability to crack down on legal organizations working in its territory.
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The Pentagon is seen from a flight taking off from Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport in Arlington, Va. (Alex Wong/Getty Photos)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on the time of the announcement this month there was a “adequate factual foundation” underneath part 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to difficulty the designations towards the gangs and cartels.
The Trump administration additionally started sending flights of unlawful immigrants to the Guantánamo Bay detention website in Cuba earlier this month.Â
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Round 30,000 “legal unlawful aliens” may very well be held on the base that when housed a whole bunch of prisoners, solely 15 of whom had been left earlier than Trump started sending migrants there.
Fox Information Digital’s Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.
