Pentagon To Send Additional Troops To Southern Border

The Pentagon will deploy an additional 1,500 active duty U.S. troops to the southern border to boost support for President Trump’s effort to curb illegal immigration.

The addition would bring the total number of troops at the southern border to around 3,600.

WATCH:

#BREAKING: The Pentagon is deploying an additional 1,500 active duty troops to the southern border, bringing their total to 3,600, per AP.

Trump is LOCKING DOWN the border! pic.twitter.com/tikkmQYCgx

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 7, 2025

From the Associated Press:

The order has been approved, the official said, to send a logistics brigade from the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty in North Carolina. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the deployment has not yet been publicly announced.

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 has already deployed to the border, and close to 500 more soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division are expected to begin moving in the coming days.

About 500 Marines also have been told to go to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some of the detained migrants will be held. Several hundred Marines have already arrived there.

ADVERTISEMENT

Troops going to the border are expected to help put in place concertina wire barriers and provide needed transportation, intelligence and other support to the Border Patrol. The logistics brigade will help support and sustain the troops.

JUST IN: The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Donald Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration. https://t.co/RPTQsibWoE

— ABC15 Arizona (@abc15) February 7, 2025

Troops arrived at Guantanamo Bay this week to make preparations for flights transporting deported migrants.

“The first flight of high-threat criminal illegals aliens has arrived at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. These criminals trampled over our previously wide open border to bring violence and mayhem to our communities. President Trump has taken swift action to expel them immediately from our county, and our nation’s finest are helping lead the way in this critical mission,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said.

The first flight of high-threat criminal illegals aliens has arrived at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. These criminals trampled over our previously wide open border to bring violence and mayhem to our communities. President Trump has taken swift action to expel them… pic.twitter.com/Kml8WX3kIK

— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) February 6, 2025

Military Times reports:

Marines with the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division boarded a KC-130J at Cherry Point Air Station in North Carolina on Sunday and departed for Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. There, they joined personnel from U.S. Southern Command and U.S. Army South, bringing the total number of service members deployed to the base for the migrant holding operation to 150.

The Marines and soldiers will provide support for a White House plan to deport immigrants lacking permanent legal status from the United States and detain them at the base. This comes as part of a sweeping effort by President Donald Trump, announced Jan. 29, to use Guantanamo as a holding ground for “high-priority criminal aliens.”

Trump said he was directing an expansion of a detention center on the naval base to hold up to 30,000 migrants.

“This memorandum is issued in order to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty,” reads the White House memorandum that directed the expansion of such a facility.

ADVERTISEMENT

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a Jan. 31 interview on Fox News that the U.S. military would “be a key element of expulsions and mass deportations.”

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at 100 Percent Fed Up.

View the original article here.