The Department of Defense (DOD) is sending out 1,140 extra united state soldiers to the southerly boundary of the United States to assist strengthen the initiatives of united state Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to regulate the increase of illegal aliens.
“The DOD remains to collaborate with the Department of Homeland Security to load important abilities spaces at the southerly boundary based on President Trump’s Executive Order, ‘Protecting the American People Against Invasion,'” U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) said.
There are currently 4,300 U.S. active-duty troops at the southern border, and an additional 1,140 troops will bring the total to 5,440 active-duty service members.
USNORTHCOM said the additional troops will provide support to joint task force operations, including command and control of sustainable units and coordination of logistical support, field feeding support sites and control of logistical movement.
TRUMP STATE DEPARTMENT DECLARES TREN DE ARAGUA, MS-13, MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS AS FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS
United States Marine Corps troops patrol the U.S.-Mexico border area as seen from San Diego Feb. 7, 2025. (Carlos Moreno/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The Army units being deployed will come from the 101st Division Sustainment Brigade, Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Alpha Company, 189th Division Sustainment Support Battalion (DSSB), Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Bravo Company, 68th DSSB, Fort Carson, Colorado; Charlie Company, 129th DSSB, Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 264th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; 70th Movement Control Team, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia; and 564th Quartermaster Company, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.
The Trump administration has designated eight gangs and cartels, including Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel and MS-13, foreign terrorist organizations in a move that expands the U.S. government’ s capability to punish criminal companies running in its area.
NOEM MAKES AGGRESSIVE NEW TRANSFER TO INCREASE APPREHENSIONS, DEPORTATIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIEN
The Pentagon is seen from a trip removing from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington,Va (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed at the time of the news this month there was a “sufficient factual basis” under area 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide the classifications versus the gangs and cartels.
The Trump management additionally started sending out trips of illegal aliens to the Guant ánamo Bay apprehension website in Cuba previously this month.
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Around 30,000 “criminal illegal aliens” can be held at the base that as soon as housed numerous detainees, just 15 of whom were left prior to Trump started sending out travelers there.
Fox News Digital’s Rachel Wolf added to this record.
