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(NewsNation) — Military units from crossed the state are rushing to supply reinforcement on the southern border pursuing President Donald Trump's enforcement bid past week declaring a national emergency there.
Hundreds of troops, including from Kentucky, Washington and New York, are en way to the U.S.-Mexico border.
At slightest 300 troops landed successful El Paso, Texas, implicit the weekend, and sources archer NewsNation that astatine slightest 500 soldiers are successful California.
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott besides announced helium volition buttress efforts by sending astatine slightest 400 soldiers from the Texas Tactical Border Force to assistance the National Guard and Border Patrol agents.
Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales, who represents overmuch of Texas's confederate border, said much troops are expected to get successful the coming days and weeks. He added that Fort Bliss successful El Paso volition fundamentally beryllium crushed zero for these removal actions.
While galore of the units headed to the borderline volition not person migration jurisdiction and cannot apprehend migrants, they volition person policing authorization connected subject bases, Gonzales said. These troops volition beryllium utilized arsenic a deterrence and to assistance instrumentality enforcement.
On his archetypal time successful office, Trump declared a nationalist exigency astatine the border, tasking the U.S. subject with aiding borderline security, issuing a wide prohibition connected asylum and taking steps to restrict citizenship for children calved connected American soil.
Trump’s Jan. 20 order instructed the Pentagon to nonstop arsenic galore troops arsenic indispensable to get “complete operational power of the confederate borderline of the United States.”
The president deployed an archetypal 1,500 troops successful California and Texas.
The amusement of unit successful California and Texas comes arsenic deportation flights person started to Central and South America.
On Friday, 2 U.S. subject aircraft, each carrying astir 80 migrants, flew from the U.S. to Guatemala, a U.S. authoritative told reporters.
Multiple deportations were carried retired via flight, immoderate of which were reportedly refused by Mexico. The White House has since claimed determination was a miscommunication and that Mexico has not refused immoderate of the flights.
Trump has threatened hefty tariffs connected countries that garbage the deported migrants.
Trump said connected Sunday helium would enforce sweeping retaliatory measures on Colombia, including tariffs and sanctions, aft the South American state turned distant 2 U.S. subject craft with migrants being deported.
Colombia, the third largest U.S. trading partner successful Latin America, swiftly responded, threatening a 50% tariff connected U.S. goods.
