More troops to deploy on missions along US-Mexico border

By ROSE L. THAYER STARS AND STRIPES • March 11, 2025

AUSTIN, Texas — Another 600 Army and Air Force troops were announced Tuesday for deployments to the U.S. border with Mexico as President Donald Trump touted a dramatic decrease in migrants arrested for unauthorized entry into the country.

The latest deployment announcement included about 40 intelligence analysts from Air Force active-duty and Reserve units and about 590 engineers from the Army Corps of Engineers and the 18th Airborne Corps, according to U.S. Northern Command. A timeline for these troops to deploy has not been determined. This will bring the number of service members assigned to the federal border security mission to about 9,600.

The deployments are part of a southwest border mission to assist the Department of Homeland Security that began in 2018 during Trump’s first term in office and continued under former President Joe Biden. When Trump returned to the White House on Jan. 20, about 2,500 National Guard troops remained along the border.

Trump signed an executive order on his first day back to declare an emergency at the border and order additional active-duty service members be deployed to “seal the border.”

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