The Pentagon will deploy up to 1,500 active duty troops to reinforce border security in the coming days, following President Trump's executive orders to address immigration. The troops, expected to support border patrol agents with logistics, transportation, and barrier construction, will join existing National Guard and Reserve forces. This deployment echoes similar deployments under both Trump and Biden administrations, though it remains unclear if they will undertake law enforcement duties.
The Pentagon will start deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, U.S. officials told the Associated Press Wednesday. This move comes shortly after President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration.Trump directed the defense secretary to come up with a plan to "seal the borders" and repel "unlawful mass migration.
In his first term, then-President Donald Trump ordered active duty troops to the border to help the Department of Homeland Security and border control agents, in response to a group of migrants slowly making their way through Mexico toward the United States in 2018.
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