An operation to deploy 1,000 Army personnel and 500 Marines to the U.S.-Mexico border is underway, according to senior military officials. The troops will assist with immigration enforcement in El Paso,
The deployment signals the military’s increased role in a much more aggressive immigration policy under the second Trump administration.
The action on immigration has come swiftly from President Donald Trump’s new administration, with several executive orders and policy changes in the first 48 hours.
The Pentagon’s Transportation Command will use military aircraft to send more than 5,000 undocumented immigrants from San Diego and El Paso, Texas, who are detained by Customs and Border Protection, Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said in a statement. The troops also will assist in building new border fences and barriers.
Arizona Department of Transportation maintenance workers used one of their water trucks to help stop a brush fire from spreading northeast of the Phoenix area.
Phoenix police have released the mugshot of a man who allegedly shot and killed another man at a Phoenix apartment complex.
U.S. Border Patrol Agents assigned to the El Paso station discovered the tunnel while conducting a storm drain inspection in Boone Street, which is less than a mile away from the
EL PASO, Texas - The El Paso Chihuahuas and San Diego Padres have announced that Pete Zamora will return to manage the Chihuahuas in 2025. It will be Zamora’s second season as the Chihuahuas’ manager and his 10th season as a manager or coach in the Padres organization.
"It's unprecedented," said Ciudad Juarez municipal official Enrique Licon as workers unloaded long metal bracings from tractor trailers parked in the large empty lot yards from the Rio Grande in order to build a tent city for deportees from the United States.
City Council greenlit the construction of a new manufacturing district that hopes to bring 17,000 jobs to El Paso.
ET By Natasha Bertrand, Priscilla Alvarez, Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of additional active duty US troops are being ordered to the southern US border with Mexico,
About 100 aircrew and maintainers will be involved in the deportation flights. The aircraft have been moved to Texas and California.