Trump administration officials are considering deploying as many as 10,000 soldiers to the border and using military bases to hold migrants awaiting deportation.
The U.S. military's mission on the border is moving quickly as the White House and the Pentagon are making it a priority to publicize news about the mission.
President Trump is sending hundreds of troops to the southern border for a wide-ranging mission that poses new challenges and raises questions about the military’s role in handling migration,
The US Department of Defense is deploying 1,500 active-duty service members along with additional air and intelligence assets to the southern border to support enforcement operations already underway.
The Trump administration Monday ended use of a border app called CBP One that has allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the United States with eligibility to work.
Declaring illegal immigration a national emergency, Trump ordered the Pentagon to provide support ... had shut down outgoing President Joe Biden's CBP One entry program, which had allowed hundreds ...
Hours after the Pentagon announced that it would send 1,500 active duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico, reports surfaced that the number was actually 10,000.
Robert Salesses, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters ... support for aerial reconnaissance in support of CBP personnel on the ground,” NORTHCOM said.
President Donald Trump launched a sweeping immigration crackdown, tasking the U.S. military with aiding border security, issuing a broad ban on asylum.
Army soldiers and Marines are headed to Texas and California. The Air Force is mobilizing planes and helicopters for surveillance and deportation flights.
The family of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border says he was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the time of the Sept.