For the first time since taking over his position, defence minister Pete Hegseth may travel to the southern boundary on Monday.
His visit comes as immigrants at the southern border are getting worse by 93 %, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. On Sunday, Noem made her first visit to the frontier since her assurance.
Under President Donald Trump’s administration, the U. S. Army deployed 1, 000 army while the Marines deployed 500. More personnel are anticipated to be stationed in the area. Before Trump took office, there were 2, 500 active-duty U. S. forces stationed at the borders.
” POTUS wants 100 % operational control of the border — and we will deliver”, Hegseth wrote on X. ” BORDER SECURITY IS NATIONAL SECURITY”.
Hegseth will even pay a visit to Fort Bliss, the 1.12-million-acre Army center on the border of New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. Some 90, 000 men, including their people, survive it.
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Trump’s immigration plans have received the support of the new defence minister. Hegseth praised Guantanamo Bay as” the ideal place” for the government’s plan to home criminal illegal immigrants there. Hegseth spent a year with the Army guarding inmates at Guantanamo Bay.
Lawmakers voted on a , small confirmation , for Hegseth , that required Vice President JD Vance to be the playoff.  ,
