{"id":46076,"date":"2021-05-19T20:52:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T20:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/05\/19\/active-duty-troops-could-be-deployed-along-the-southern-border-again\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:43:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:43:48","slug":"active-duty-troops-could-be-deployed-along-the-southern-border-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/the-americas\/2021\/05\/19\/active-duty-troops-could-be-deployed-along-the-southern-border-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Active-duty troops could be deployed along the southern border again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands of National Guardsmen who\u2019ve been rotating to the U.S.-Mexico border since 2018 are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/05\/18\/guard-leaders-eye-end-to-capitol-hill-border-security-missions\/\" target=\"_blank\"> supposed to go home for good by Sept. 30<\/a>, the chief of the National Guard Bureau told lawmakers on Tuesday, but because the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/03\/16\/border-deployments-could-be-extended-past-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Homeland Security Department wants that mission to continue<\/a>, they could be replaced by active-duty troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All options are on the table, Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson said, but a Pentagon spokesman declined to confirm Wednesday that active-duty troops are under consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI won\u2019t speculate on what the answer to the request will be or how it will be sourced &#8230; the sourcing comes later in the process,\u201d John Kirby told Military Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kirby would not share whether DHS requested a specific number of troops to stay beyond September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the height of border deployments, in 2019, the Defense Department authorized up to 5,500 troops. That number has come down to roughly 3,500 National Guardsmen currently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Active-duty troops were part of the first waves of border deployments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/11\/15\/critics-renew-push-to-end-military-deployment-to-southern-us-border\/\" target=\"_blank\">at one point making up half<\/a> of those providing logistics, engineering and surveillance support to Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[Defense officials] are looking at all options now,\u201d Hokanson said Tuesday. \u201cWe know the current units are scheduled to come home on Sept. 30, and we are working as quickly as possible to notify those forces so there is no break in coverage.\u201d<\/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\/your-military\/2021\/03\/09\/dod-didnt-put-enough-thought-into-the-cost-of-border-deployments-report-finds\/\" 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=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5088614.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\">DoD didn\u2019t put enough thought into the cost of border deployments, report finds<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Government Accountability Office found the Pentagon failed to plan for and report on the results of border wall deployments.<\/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\">Last year,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/02\/19\/as-more-border-wall-goes-up-troops-could-start-heading-home\/\" target=\"_blank\"> a senior Pentagon official<\/a> told reporters that he expected troops would draw down as more border wall went up. 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