The Trump administration approved an additional 1,115 service members for deployment to the southern border Thursday as part of President Trump’s mission to seal off the US-Mexico boundary.
The latest round of deployments will bring the total number of US troops at the border close to 10,000 – far higher than the 2,500 National Guardsmen former President Joe Biden had stationed on the frontier at the end of his term.
Currently, there are more than 8,000 service members actively patrolling the US-Mexico border in aerial, maritime and land support roles, a US Northern Command spokesperson told The Post.
The incoming units will provide “enhanced sustainment, engineering, medical, and operational capabilities as part of the Department of Defense’s continued whole-of-government approach to gain full operational control of the southern border,” US Northern Command said in a statement.
Approved elements for deployment include members of the Army’s Expeditionary Sustainment Command, to coordinate logistics, and the Quartermaster Field Feeding Company, to ensure troops get enough to eat in the harsh environments.
About half of the 1,115 soldiers set for deployment are attached to engineering companies, battalions and brigades and will be tasked with construction-oriented missions.
Trump’s “big, beautiful” agenda bill, which cleared the House of Representatives early Thursday morning, provides $175 billion in spending on border security – including $46.5 billion for new border wall construction.
The legislation still needs to be approved by the Senate. --->READ MORE HERE
The Trump administration has called on 20,000 National Guard troops to help ramp up President Trump’s mass deportation effort.
By President Trump’s 100th day in office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had collared more than 66,000 illegal migrants living in the US. However, officials want to increase the numbers by recruiting more manpower.
“DHS requested 20,000 National Guard members to help carry out the President’s mandate from the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Post in a statement.
DHS will use “every tool and resource available to get criminal illegal aliens, including gang members, murderers, pedophiles, and other violent criminals out of our country. The safety of American citizens comes first,” McLaughlin added.
The Department of Defense is weighing the request, which would mark the first time National Guard troops were used to enforce immigration law in the US, according to The New York Times.
It wasn’t immediately clear, however, if the states would also have to approve the plan and what role the guards would play specifically in the mass deportation effort.
Meanwhile, Border Patrol sources also told The Post that they have been asked to “volunteer” to assist ICE in an imminent “nationwide” effort.
The locations and targets of the operation, however, were not immediately clear. --->READ MORE HERE
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