The viral video shows Polish tanks during a military parade in the country’s capital, and it predates President Trump’s second term.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the additional troops will work alongside federal border agents amid the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants.
Two days after President Donald Trump took the oath of office, active-duty U.S. military troops are preparing to head to the southern border.
Some 1,500 U.S. troops have been ordered to the U.S. southern border by President Donald Trump. Here's a glimpse into some of the duties they'll be tasked with when they arrive.
That is more than five times the $853 cost of a one-way first class ticket on American Airlines from El Paso, Texas, the departure point for the flight, according to a review of publicly available airfares.
This is just the beginning,” one Defense official said about the deployment of active-duty troops to the border with Mexico.
The deployment signals the military’s increased role in a much more aggressive immigration policy under the second Trump administration.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, the White House confirmed on Wednesday, putting in motion plans President Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration.
The move enacts President Trump's executive orders issued shortly after he took office to intensify immigration enforcement.
Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said deploying additional active duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border “is just the beginning.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott deployed the troops to the Rio Grande Valley, where he said they'll work side-by-side with U.S. Border Patrol agents to keep migrants from illegally entering the country. Some of those troops left from the U.S. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth Monday morning. The others left from a base in Houston.
The president has directed the U.S. military to reinforce the border, and the acting secretary of defense on Wednesday announced the Pentagon is sending around 1,500 active duty troops to the country’s southern border, joining 2,500 active duty personnel already there.