Whatever is needed at the border will be provided,” Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary, told reporters on Monday.
This is just the beginning,” one Defense official said about the deployment of active-duty troops to the border with Mexico.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that he and President Donald Trump want to “bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense.”
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Wednesday it has begun deploying ... a nod to the president’s directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Trump has referred to Canada as the ‘51st state ...
Some 1,500 active duty troops are being sent down after plans were put in motion by the newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump. The 47th US president got to work quickly after r
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as ... guard at a checkpoint near the International Bridge between Mexico and the United States, where migrants are waiting to be processed ...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Wednesday it has begun deploying ... a nod to the president’s directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Trump said during his inaugural address on Monday that ...
After the Department of Defense announced Wednesday that 1,500 troops would be initially assigned to the border mission, what bases and units they were coming from and what other forces could be included remained questions.
This was the first time in recent memory that military aircraft were used to fly migrants out of the country, one U.S. official said.
The Pentagon has said that the US military would provide flights to deport more than 5,000 immigrants held by US authorities in El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California
U.S. military C-17 aircraft began flying detained migrants out of the country on Friday, following orders from President Donald Trump, as the Pentagon prepared to send more troops to the southern border,