First of 10,000 troops arrive at the border to deport migrants following Trump's executive order

The 1,500 further progressive work troops Donald Trump deployed to the confederate borderline began arriving connected Thursday morning.

The Pentagon confirmed the 1,000 Army soldiers and 500 Marines deployed southbound see those from Military Police units arsenic good arsenic combat engineers and quality specialists to assistance successful detection and monitoring of amerciable borderline jumpers.

The further progressive forces, which adds to the astir 2,500 already presently stationed on the border, volition besides assistance successful constructing barriers on the borderline and providing the aerial powerfulness for deportations.

Defense Department officials confirmed their forces volition alert the 5,400 migrants who are presently successful detention retired of the U.S. connected deportation missions.

The aircrews and attraction teams progressive successful the missions are successful summation to the 1,500 deploying to the borderline by the extremity of the week.

Four C-17 and C-130 subject craft were moved to El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California this week, an authoritative told Task & Purpose.

Arrests and deportations already began connected Tuesday, with Trump's borderline czar Tom Homan confirming that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 308 amerciable migrants successful the archetypal afloat time of the caller administration.

Trump is readying to nonstop a full of 10,000 progressive work subject to the border.

The archetypal question arrived connected Thursday to statesman their ngo alongside migration officials, section instrumentality enforcement and National Guard who person been stationed determination for years. 

'This is conscionable the start, we are anticipating galore further missions,' a elder Defense authoritative noted of the archetypal deployment of troops.

Trump declared a nationalist exigency astatine the borderline during the archetypal fewer hours of his 2nd White House term.

He wants the troops to instrumentality 'complete operational control' of the border.

Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said successful a connection connected the deportation flights the the Department of Homeland Security is providing in-flight enforcement and the State Department volition woody with diplomatic clearances.

It's unclear yet wherever the migrants volition beryllium flown, but aft Trump's 2024 predetermination win, his squad began negotiating with third-party countries to judge the millions of amerciable immigrants helium plans to footwear retired of the U.S.

'This is conscionable the beginning,' Salesses said successful the connection of the swift subject movements.

'In abbreviated order, the Department volition make and execute further missions successful practice with DHS, national agencies, and authorities partners to code the afloat scope of threats outlined by the President astatine our nation's borders,' helium added.

The Marines sent to the borderline were already connected alert to assistance firefighters responding to the California fires successful caller weeks.

Over the play arsenic responders gained much power of the fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released the Marines from their duty – freeing them up to alternatively respond to the borderline crisis.