As part of President Trump’s initiative to close the border between the United States and Mexico, the administration of President Trump gave the go-ahead on Thursday for an additional 1,115 personnel of the armed forces to be deployed to the southern border.
There will be over 10,000 United States troops stationed at the border as a result of the most recent deployments. This number is much higher than the 2,500 members of the National Guard that former President Joe Biden had stationed there at the end of his term.
As of right now, over 8,000 members of the United States Armed Forces are actively patrolling the border between the United States and Mexico in land support, maritime, and aviation capacities, as stated by a spokeswoman for the United States Northern Command.
Additionally, the arriving units will provide “enhanced sustainment, engineering, medical, and operational capabilities as part of the Department of Defense’s continued whole-of-government approach to gain full operational control of the southern border,” as said in a statement released by the United States Northern Command.
Additionally, components that have been cleared for deployment include members of the Army’s Expeditionary Sustainment Command, who will be in charge of supplies, and the Quartermaster Field Feeding Company, who will ensure that soldiers consume sufficient amounts of food despite the adverse conditions.
The approximately fifty percent of the one thousand and eleven hundred and fifteen soldiers who are planned to be deployed will be assigned to engineering companies, brigades, and battalions, and they will be charged with construction-related activities.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, the House of Representatives voted to approve the “big, beautiful” agenda bill proposed by President Trump. This plan allots a total of $175 billion for border security, including $46.5 billion designated for the construction of new border walls.
It is still necessary for the Senate to agree to the law.
Since the beginning of the Trump administration in January, the number of people who cross the border illegally from Mexico has reached an all-time long low.
According to statistics provided by the Border Patrol, federal officers encountered fewer than 10,000 migrants unlawfully crossing the southern border in the month of April. This is a 93% decline from the more than 128,000 persons who went across the border illegally in April of the previous year during the administration of Vice President Joe Biden.
According to the executive order that President Trump issued on Day One regarding border security, the United States military was given the directive to “defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of the United States by preventing attempts by illegal migrants, drug traffickers, and human traffickers to enter the country between national ports of entry.
Trump has granted the military power to confiscate enormous areas of federal land along the southern border in order to carry out the mission. This is in addition to the deployment of extra troops.
