Pentagon Sends 1,500 Troops to U.S.-Mexico Border

The Pentagon will soon deploy up to 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S. border with Mexico.

U.S. officials provided this information, according to Stripes.

Thus, U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to combat migration, set out in executive orders shortly after he took office, are being put into effect.

Information on which troops or units will be deployed and what they will do was not immediately available.

It also remains to be seen whether they will eventually take over law enforcement, which would put U.S. troops in a completely new role for themselves.

The active-duty troops will join about 2,500 U.S. National Guard members and Reservists now at the border.

These troops are expected to be used to support border patrol officers with logistics, transportation, and fence construction.

By law, troops are prohibited from performing law enforcement functions at the border, but this could change.

Trump has ordered the new U.S. Secretary of Defense and the new Head of National Security to report back within 90 days if they find that the 1807 law called the Sedition Act should be invoked.

The law gives the U.S. President the right to deploy and use U.S. troops inside the country in certain cases.

Last year it was reported that Russian intelligence services had increased their presence in Mexico to conduct spy operations against the United States.

Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. Northern Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in March 2022 that Russia’s GRU military intelligence service had a massive presence in Mexico.