US President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of an extra 1,500 military officers to the border with Mexico as part of a series of steps to tackle immigration, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
This implementation will increase the total amount of active-duty troops at the frontier to around 4,000, with border surveillance being a major concern for the president since declaring a national emergency at the US-Mexico border on his first day in office.
The troops comprise 1,000 Army staff and 500 Soldiers, according to a senior US defense standard at the Pentagon, as reported by AFP. The Marines, recently designated for California fire support but no utilised, have been reassigned to the frontier activity.
” These troops will operate on the position of physical restrictions and other border operations. Second functions for them should start within the next 24 to 48 hours; they’re moving best then,” the senior military official said.
The official even anticipates the implementation of additional flying knowledge, surveillance, and support assets to strengthen situational awareness at the border. Acting defence secretary Robert Salesses stated that the US military may help with flights to arrest migrants out of the nation.
” The office will offer military aircraft to help DHS ( Department of Homeland Security ) imprisonment flights of more than five thousand illegal creatures from the San Diego, California, and El Paso, Texas fields,” Salesses said in a statement.
The senior military official confirmed that the deportation effort will involve approximately 100 US military personnel. The deployment of additional troops is considered an initial effort, with many additional missions expected to follow, according to a senior defense official.
From Day 1 in office, Trump has remained firm with crackdown on illegal immigration. Trump has claimed that he’s fine with legal immigrants but soon after he took office, an app that streamlined the legal process was shut down. This has left many waiting at the Mexico-US border in disillusion and feeling defeated.
