{"id":76678,"date":"2025-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/02\/08\/more-us-troops-deploying-to-us-mexico-border\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:30:39","slug":"more-us-troops-deploying-to-us-mexico-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2025\/02\/08\/more-us-troops-deploying-to-us-mexico-border\/","title":{"rendered":"More US troops deploying to US-Mexico border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active-duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Donald Trump\u2019s expanding crackdown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/02\/04\/us-military-readies-first-migrant-deportation-flight-to-guantanamo-bay\/\" target=\"_blank\">on immigration<\/a>, a U.S. official said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That would eventually bring the total to about 3,600 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/01\/22\/pentagon-to-send-1500-troops-to-border-to-start-trump-ordered-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\">active-duty troops at the border.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 the condition of anonymity because the deployment has not yet been publicly announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/02\/03\/hegseth-travels-to-border-amid-military-immigration-crackdown\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/APTOPIX_Pentagon_Hegseth_89109.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Hegseth travels to border amid military immigration crackdown<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">While there, the defense secretary will likely announce hundreds of more troops who will join the military&#039;s expanded role in enforcing immigration.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon has been scrambling to put in motion Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-deportation-immigration-homan-asylum-inauguration-ac10480dc636b758ab3c435b974aeb19\" target=\"_blank\">executive orders<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 500 Marines have also been told to go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/02\/03\/troops-arrive-at-guantanamo-bay-to-prepare-migrant-detention-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guantanamo Bay<\/a>, Cuba, where some of the detained migrants will be held. Several hundred Marines have already arrived there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Troops going to the border are expected to help put in place concertina wire barriers and provide needed transportation, intelligence and other support to Border Patrol. 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