The Pentagon is preparing to deploy at least 1,000 additional active duty troops to support President Donald Trump's immigration policies. Roughly 500 soldiers will be sent to the southwest border, while another 500 Marines will head to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to assist with the potential housing of detained migrants. The deployments reflect Trump's determination to expand the military's role in securing the border and sending migrants back to their home countries.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is readying orders for the deployment of at least 1,000 additional active duty troops to bolster President Donald Trump 's expanding crackdown on immigration, U.S. officials said Friday.
The Pentagon has been scrambling to put in motion Trump’s executive orders signed shortly after he took office on Jan. 20. The first group of 1,600 active duty troops deployed to the border last week. Speaking on “Fox and Friends” on Friday morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he believes the U.S. can get “thousands of individuals in tents, secured in places at Guantanamo Bay.”
Before Trump returned to the White House, there were already about 2,500 Guard and Reserve forces consistently deployed to the border. Officials noted that given the length of the nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico, it will take additional forces to help put large rolls of concertina wire barriers in place and provide support to the Border Patrol.
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