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(NewsNation) — The U.S. Coast Guard is acceptable to big a property league Thursday to sermon patrol efforts on the confederate border, including enactment on the Rio Grande arsenic portion of Operation River Wall.
The press conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. successful Mission, Texas. The Department of Homeland Security announced the motorboat of Operation River Wall earlier this period arsenic portion of the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown connected amerciable immigration. The cognition marks the biggest borderline enforcement surge by the Coast Guard successful decades.
According to the Coast Guard, its deployment is focused connected a 260-mile stretch of the Rio Grande adjacent Mission, Texas. As portion of its deployment, the DHS says the Coast Guard has brought “more than 100 boats and hundreds of personnel” to enactment successful tandem with Border Patrol and U.S. Northern Command.
“The men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard are experts astatine defending America’s maritime borders — they person been doing that with honor, respect and devotion to work since 1790,” Secretary Kristi Noem said successful a statement. “Now, Coast Guard Forces Rio Grande and Operation River Wall volition beryllium a unit multiplier successful defending against amerciable immigration."
It is unclear if Noem volition beryllium successful attendance during the property conference. In summation to discussing Operation River Wall, officials are expected to outline the adjacent signifier of defence astatine the confederate border, including imperishable bid and power teams stationed successful the region.
