United States Marines Deployed To Southern Border

The United States Marine Corps and the U.S. Army have been deployed to the Southern Border.

The Pentagon reported that 1,000 Army soldiers and 500 Marines have been deployed to the border to assist border patrol agents.

MSN reported the military is assisting in constructing barriers and assisting with deportations.

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🚨 #BREAKING: The U.S. Marine Corps has arrived at the Southern Border pic.twitter.com/qRaJ6rYzIe

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Per The Daily Mail:

The 1,500 additional active duty troops Donald Trump deployed to the southern border began arriving on Thursday morning.

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The Pentagon confirmed the 1,000 Army soldiers and 500 Marines deployed south include those from Military Police units as well as combat engineers and intelligence specialists to aid in detection and monitoring of illegal border jumpers.

The additional active forces, which adds to the roughly 2,500 already currently stationed along the border, will also aid in constructing barriers along the border and providing the air power for deportations.

Defense Department officials confirmed their forces will fly the 5,400 migrants who are currently in detention out of the U.S. on deportation missions.

The US Marine Corps Is On The Border Assisting CBP With The Mission To Secure America

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Per NBC 7 San Diego:

A military official confirmed to NBC 7 on Thursday that hundreds of locally based service members would be heading to the U.S.-Mexico border to participate in security operations.

“As directed by U.S. Northern Command and Joint Task Force North, I Marine Expeditionary Force will deploy approximately 500 Marines and sailors as an immediate augmentation of military active-duty forces to the southern border to carry out directed missions called for by the president to secure the border and protect and defend the territorial integrity of the United States,” 1st Lt. Troy J. Garza said in the statement sent out shortly after 10 a.m.

The I Marine Expeditionary Force is made up of about 53,000 active-duty troops, who are primarily stationed at Camp Pendleton, as well as at Marine Corps Air Stations Miramar and Yuma, and the Marine Corps Air/Ground Combat Center at 29 Palms, California.