The Pentagon is sending nearly 3,000 additional active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as President Donald Trump aims to crack down on illegal immigration. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered elements of a Stryker brigade combat team and a general support aviation battalion for the mission. Fort Carson is sending 2,400 soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, while an additional 500 soldiers from Fort Stewart’s 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade will be deployed. These troops will provide transportation, engineering support, detection, and monitoring along the border but will not be involved in interdiction or deportation operations. The aviation brigade will assist with the movement of personnel, equipment, and supplies. This deployment brings the total number of U.S. troops at the southern border to about 9,200, including both federal orders and National Guard troops under governors’ control. The Pentagon stated that these new troops will reinforce and expand current border security operations to protect the United States’ territorial integrity. Trump is determined to increase the military’s involvement in closing the border and returning detained migrants to their home countries. Military personnel have been deployed to the border since the 1990s to address migration, drug trafficking, and transnational crime.
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