The Pentagon is sending over 2,000 additional active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in response to President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to crack down on illegal immigration. Defense Secretary Pete Hesgeth has ordered elements of a Stryker brigade combat team and a general support aviation battalion for the mission. This deployment will bring the total number of troops at the southern border to 9,200, including federal and National Guard troops.
Fort Carson announced that they will be sending 2,400 soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team to carry out directed missions to secure the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States. The Strykers are medium-armored wheeled personnel carriers that will help reinforce and expand current border security operations.
President Trump is determined to expand the military’s role in shutting down the border and sending detained migrants back to their home countries. Military personnel have been sent to the border regularly since the 1990s to address migration, drug trafficking, and transnational crime. This new deployment is part of Trump’s efforts to seal the border and protect the United States’ territorial integrity.
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