The Trump administration is deploying more than 1,000 additional troops to help secure the southern border, U.S. Northern Command announced in a statement on May 22.
The troops join more than 10,000 service members already deployed to the border as part of Joint Task Force-Southern Border, a cooperative effort between the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security. The new deployment is the latest development in the Trump administration’s continued efforts to secure the southern border.
The troops will be deployed “to provide enhanced sustainment, engineering, medical, and operational capabilities as part of the Department of Defense’s continued whole-of-government approach to gain full operational control of the southern border,” U.S. Northern Command said….