Whatever is needed at the border will be provided,” Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary, told reporters on Monday.

This is just the beginning,” one Defense official said about the deployment of active-duty troops to the border with Mexico.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that he and President Donald Trump want to “bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense.”

The forces are expected to be used to support border patrol agents with logistics, transportation and construction of barriers.

The deployment signals the military’s increased role in a much more aggressive immigration policy under the second Trump administration.

This was the first time in recent memory that military aircraft were used to fly migrants out of the country, one U.S. official said.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the additional troops will work alongside federal border agents amid the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants.

U.S. military C-17 aircraft began flying detained migrants out of the country on Friday, following orders from President Donald Trump, as the Pentagon prepared to send more troops to the southern border,

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