Active-duty troops begin arriving at US-Mexico border in Texas and California to combat migrant crisis

Military troops began arriving successful El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California, connected Thursday evening pursuing President Donald Trump's determination to state a nationalist exigency astatine the confederate border.

The further enactment of 1,500 active-duty troops consists of 1,000 U.S. Army unit and 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton successful California who volition get their assignments on the borderline upon arrival.

"This represents a 60% summation successful active-duty crushed forces since President Trump was sworn-in Monday," Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said successful a connection precocious Wednesday.

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A radical of implicit 100 migrants attempting to participate the US illegally are seen rushing a borderline partition connected March 21, 2024. In the process, the migrants knocked down Texas National Guardsmen earlier they were halted by the borderline wall. (James Breeden for New York Post / Mega)

There are already 2,500 U.S. work members stationed astatine the southern border. 

The troops were ordered determination successful May 2023 during the Biden medication nether Title 10 authorities approved by erstwhile Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and are planned to beryllium determination until the extremity of Fiscal Year 2025, according to a U.S. Northern Command spokesperson. 

The National Guard is besides expanding its enactment and coordinating emergent requirements with USNORTHCOM and U.S. Transportation Command for further personnel, subject airlift, obstruction operation and different capabilities to conscionable statesmanlike and Secretary of Defense directives, according to a connection from the National Guard Bureau of Public Affairs.

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Active-duty subject unit began arriving on the confederate borderline Thursday evening aft President Donald Trump declared a nationalist exigency to code the migration crisis. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

"The National Guard presently has implicit 1,600 Guardsmen supporting the national borderline information mission," said Gen. Steven S. Nordhaus, main of the National Guard Bureau. "In conjunction with our Joint Service partners, we are processing further enactment options to conscionable USNORTHCOM, USTRANSCOM and Department of Homeland Security unit requirements arsenic this captious ngo evolves." 

Additionally, much than 4,100 Texas National Guard unit stay connected work astatine the borderline supporting ongoing Operation Lone Star efforts. 

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Some of the troops being deployed to the confederate borderline were connected telephone oregon actively moving successful enactment of the California wildfires, though they were released from that ngo and are present being reassigned, the elder authoritative added.

Fox News Digital's Liz Friden, Stephen Sorace, Jennifer Griffin and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.