Military's Border Mission Now Includes Coordinated Patrols with Mexican Counterparts
In a sharp escalation of border security efforts, U.S. and Mexican forces will soon begin synchronized patrols along their respective sides of the southern border, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. The joint effort underscores the Trump administration’s push to have an aggressive posture on the border, a part of a key campaign promise President Donald Trump […]
Thousands of US and Mexican Troops Are at The Border. Here’s Where They Are and What They’re Doing
SAN DIEGO — Border commuters are experiencing an extra layer of screening at the San Diego-Tijuana border as Mexican soldiers began randomly searching vehicles for drugs at U.S. ports of entry. The searches in Mexico are believed to be unprecedented in recent history. Thousands of troops have been deployed to both sides of the U.S.-Mexico […]
Here Are All the Units Now Deployed to the Border for Trump's Immigration Crackdown
An initial wave of 1,600 troops was deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border by Monday following a mobilization that started last week. The border mission has become the Defense Department’s top priority as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also entered the Pentagon for the first time Monday after being confirmed by an unusually close Senate vote late […]
Inside the Military's Scramble to Move Troops to the Mexico Border
Military units from across the country are scrambling to get in place along the southern border following President Donald Trump’s order earlier this week, and U.S. aircraft have already begun flying deported immigrants out of the country as the mission rapidly moves along. After the Department of Defense announced Wednesday that 1,500 troops would be […]
Trump Orders 1,500 Active-Duty Troops to Border Ahead of Pentagon Security Plan Deadline
The Pentagon is surging approximately 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern U.S. border under orders from President Donald Trump to assist in flying migrants out of the country as well as building barriers, as the commander in chief flexes his new authority and attempts to make good on a campaign promise to curb immigration into […]
'At What Cost': Guard Chief Argues Border Mission Is Getting in the Way of Warfighting
The outgoing chief of the National Guard is doubling down on his recent criticisms of the service component’s long-troubled security mission on the U.S.-Mexico border, saying it’s a detriment to the Guard’s ability to wage war. “The reason the Guard exists is to fight and win our nation’s wars, period,” Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the National […]
On Newly-Quiet Stretch of US-Mexico Border, Louisiana Soldiers Sit Around, Watch and Wait
EAGLE PASS, Texas — The soldiers from Louisiana stand around, sit in folding chairs and recline on the beds of Humvees, eyeing the thicket of razor wire that blankets the bank of the Rio Grande and waiting for a potential threat that rarely materializes. When migrants clamber from the slow-moving water and probe for openings […]
Supreme Court Allows Federal Agents to Cut Razor Wire Texas Installed on US-Mexico Border
WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to resume cutting for now razor wire that Texas installed along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border that is at the center of an escalating standoff between the Biden administration and the state over immigration enforcement. The 5-4 vote clears the way for […]
Tense Border Standoff Between Texas Guard and Federal Government Is Reaching a Crescendo
This article was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. EAGLE PASS — On a chilly January afternoon, a military drone hovers over Shelby Park as Texas National Guard members pull boats from the Rio […]
Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Intervene in Its Dispute with Texas over Border Land
McALLEN, Texas — The drowning deaths of three migrants have brought new urgency to an extraordinary showdown between the Biden administration and Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has seized a city park in a major corridor for illegal crossings and denied entry to Border Patrol agents. The Department of Justice filed a new request […]