U.S. officials say the Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border ...
After the Department of Defense announced Wednesday that 1,500 troops would be initially assigned to the border mission, what ...
This is just the beginning,” one Defense official said about the deployment of active-duty troops to the border with Mexico.
The move enacts President Trump's executive orders issued shortly after he took office to intensify immigration enforcement.
Whatever is needed at the border will be provided,” Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary, told reporters on Monday.
Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said the troops will fly helicopters to assist Border Patrol agents and help in the ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that he and President Donald Trump want to “bring the warrior culture back to the ...
The forces are expected to be used to support border patrol agents with logistics, transportation and construction of ...
The deployment signals the military’s increased role in a much more aggressive immigration policy under the second Trump ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the additional troops will work alongside federal border agents amid the Trump administration's ...
This was the first time in recent memory that military aircraft were used to fly migrants out of the country, one U.S.