Trump Set To Deploy 10,000 Active Duty Troops to Southern Border


President Donald Trump is making good on his promise to secure the nation’s souther border.

In his inauguration speech, he declared that illegal immigration was a national emergency.


Now, he is sending 1,500 active duty Marines to the border, and put an additional 10,000 service members on alert.

Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses says that the troops will be flying helicopters to assist Border Patrol agents, as well as constructing barriers.

The military will also supply aircraft for the Department of Homeland Security to fly detained illegal immigrants out of the country.



As a part of Trump’s efforts to secure the border, he issued an executive order to “suspends the physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion of the United States through the southern border.”

It also appears that the southern border is not the only entry point that Trump has targeted.






1 thought on “Trump Set To Deploy 10,000 Active Duty Troops to Southern Border”

  1. People forget, or never knew, there are two airbases and several army bases on the Mexican border. Before the gulf war these were manned, they were firing ranges with big fences maintained and patrolled by the army and air forces. Technically that’s range safety patrols but it was a border fence. Generally no-one crosses a fenced and marked firing range (unless their Japanese tourist at the base at Wagga Wagga Australia. ) When the Gulf war kicked off the units were moved to the middle east and the bases were partly closed, some land was sold, some was leased out. By declaring the Mexican cartels hostile, Trump makes these bases the new front line. The bases will be reactivated. Note: That does not put the US in conflict with Mexico because there are thousands of Mexican police and army that would side with Trump on this.

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