{"id":56610,"date":"2018-04-11T00:54:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/04\/11\/gradual-deployment-of-us-troops-to-mexico-border-underway\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:53:12","slug":"gradual-deployment-of-us-troops-to-mexico-border-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/04\/11\/gradual-deployment-of-us-troops-to-mexico-border-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Gradual deployment of US troops to Mexico border underway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ROMA, Texas \u2014 The deployment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/04\/09\/arizona-sends-225-troops-to-mexico-border-more-heading-soon\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border<\/a> at President Donald Trump\u2019s request was underway Tuesday with a gradual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/04\/04\/white-house-walks-back-trumps-plan-to-use-us-military-on-southern-border\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">ramp-up of troops <\/a>under orders to help curb illegal immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration also announced that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will visit this week a stretch of new border wall breaking ground in New Mexico, putting additional focus on what Trump has called a crisis of migrant crossings and crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The construction and commitment of at least 1,600 Guard members from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas provoked fresh condemnation from immigrant activists and praise from border-state Republican governors, who will retain command-and-control of their state\u2019s Guard during a mission that for now has no firm end date.<\/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\/2018\/04\/07\/national-guard-troops-head-to-the-border-paid-for-by-the-pentagon\/\" 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=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-942784292.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\">National Guard troops head to the border, paid for by the Pentagon<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">As many as 4,000 National Guard personnel will be headed to the U.S.-Mexico border, paid for by the federal government, the Associated Press reported Friday night.<\/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 only holdout border state was California, led by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, who has not announced whether troops from his state\u2019s National Guard will participate and has repeatedly clashed with Trump over immigration policy. The state was still reviewing Tuesday whether it join the effort, said Lt. Tom Keegan, a spokesman for the California National Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18100751025431.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-94478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18100751025431.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18100751025431.jpg.jpg?resize=300,202 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18100751025431.jpg.jpg?resize=768,516 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">National Guard troops guard the border in Roma, Texas, on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. The deployment of National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border at President Donald Trump&#8217;s request was underway Tuesday with a gradual ramp-up of troops under orders to help curb the flow of illegal immigration. (Ver\u00f3nica G. C\u00e1rdenas via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Texas, where Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has pledged to put more than 1,000 Guard members into action, military officials said Tuesday that 300 troops would report to armories this week for preparation and training. Texas has previously kept about 100 Guard members stationed on the border for years as part of its own border security efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat is different now it is happening in a different context and a different narrative,\u201d said Fernando Garcia, director of the Border Network for Human Rights, an immigrant advocacy group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking from the Rio Grande Valley where immigrant crossings are the highest along the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) U.S.-Mexico border, Garcia said, \u201cWhen you hear the narrative of the president, it seems to him the enemy is the immigrant family.\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\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/04\/05\/thornberry-dont-rob-military-to-fund-border-wall\/\" 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=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18093735665865.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\">The House Armed Services chairman doesn\u2019t want to \u2018rob military\u2019 to fund border wall<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Pentagon is standing up an operations cell to assist with border security and looking at options to fortify border barrier at military installation in Arizona.<\/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\">Abbott said in a statement Tuesday that the Guard has \u201cproven to have a meaningful impact\u201d in reducing immigration and crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Texas border town of Roma, about a half-dozen uniformed Guard members were seen Tuesday near an international bridge along the Rio Grande. Children played just across the river in Mexico, and it wasn\u2019t clear whether the Guard members were new or part of Texas\u2019 earlier observe-and-report missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Guard member was armed with an M4 rifle and used binoculars to peer across the river. Pickup trucks with Guard members inside circled the town square along with border patrol vehicles. Mexican children who had attended school on the U.S. side of the border showed their passports and paid a toll to cross a bridge over the river and walk home to the Mexican community of Ciudad Miguel Aleman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"666\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18100026188416.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-94481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18100026188416.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18100026188416.jpg.jpg?resize=300,195 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18100026188416.jpg.jpg?resize=768,500 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aaron Hull, chief patrol agent of the U. S. Customs and Border Protection&#8217;s El Paso Sector, speaks where construction on a new segment of the border wall will be built, near Santa Teresa, N.M., Monday, April 9, 2018. Hull says the troops could help with air support, surveillance and repairs of infrastructure along the border so that Border Patrol agents have more time to enforce immigration law. (Ruben R. Ramirez\/The El Paso Times via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said last week he wants to send 2,000 to 4,000 National Guard members to the border, issuing a proclamation citing \u201cthe lawlessness that continues at our southern border.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump administration officials have said that rising numbers of people being caught at the southern border, while in line with seasonal trends in recent years, require an immediate response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apprehensions are still well below their historical trends during the terms of former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, both of whom also deployed the Guard to the border.<\/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\/2018\/04\/08\/what-happened-when-bush-obama-sent-troops-to-mexico-border\/\" 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=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18095645470609.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\">What happened when Bush, Obama sent troops to Mexico border<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Since he launched his run for president, Donald Trump has said things about immigrants and the U.S.-Mexico border that no other U.S. president has. But now he\u2019s reached directly into his predecessors\u2019 playbook by sending in the National Guard.<\/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\">Some Guard members will be armed if they are placed in potential danger, Abbott said, adding he wanted to downplay speculation that \u201cour National Guard is showing up with military bayonets trying to take on anybody that\u2019s coming across the border, because that is not their role.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no end date for the deployment, Abbott said: \u201cWe may be in this for the long haul.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has said he wants to use the military at the border until progress is made on his proposed border wall, which has mostly stalled in Congress. Defense Secretary James Mattis last Friday approved paying for up to 4,000 National Guard personnel from the Pentagon budget through the end of September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mexico\u2019s foreign relations secretary said his government is evaluating its cooperation with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Weber reported from Austin, Texas. 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