President Donald Trump’s plans to secure the southern border moved ahead just days after he took office with the deployment of 1,500 ground personnel, a 60% increase in active duty troops.

The Defense Department is sending 1,500 active-duty service members and additional air and intelligence assets to the southern border to augment troops already conducting enforcement operations in ...

The Pentagon said Wednesday it has begun deploying 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border, putting in motion plans President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly ...

Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses has approved the immediate deployment of 1,500 active-duty troops to the Mexico-U.S. border.

This is just the beginning,’ says a defence chief, adding the president ‘expects immediate results’ from new immigration ...

The US military will deploy 1,500 additional troops to the southern border following President Trump’s new immigration ...