Pentagon chief travels to Mexico border as Trump cracks down on migration

WASHINGTON — 

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived successful Texas connected Monday to sojourn the confederate borderline arsenic President Donald Trump works to instrumentality a hard-right docket that includes boosting the U.S. subject beingness to support retired amerciable immigrants.

In his archetypal travel arsenic Pentagon chief, Hegseth volition survey operations and conscionable with U.S. troops who person been rushed to the portion nether Trump.

"Looking guardant to gathering our large warriors and seeing the hard enactment they are doing securing our confederate border. We volition proceed to present connected this captious mission," Hegseth wrote connected X successful a station announcing his arrival.

Trump ordered 1,500 further subject unit to the borderline conscionable days aft taking office, and his medication carried retired highly publicized migration raids and arrests. Some migrants person been deported utilizing subject aircraft.

Border information is simply a cardinal precedence for the president, who declared a nationalist exigency astatine the U.S. borderline with Mexico connected his archetypal time successful office.

The further unit person accrued the full fig of active-duty troops deployed determination to astir 4,000.

Ahead of his borderline visit, Hegseth posted connected X that Trump "wants 100% operational power of the borderline — and we volition deliver."