Under orders from the Trump administration, the Pentagon is deploying 3,000 more troops and armored Stryker vehicles to the U.S. border with Mexico. The orders expand current operations and to “seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States,” officials said.
The additional troops will to bring the current troops level at the border to more than 9,000 service members to work with federal and state law enforcement agencies previously deployed.
The move was ordered by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who posted on social media, “We are dead serious about 100% OPERATIONAL CONTROL of the southern border.”
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