AUSTIN, Texas — Another 600 Army and Air Force troops were announced Tuesday for deployments to the U.S. border with Mexico as President Donald Trump touted a dramatic decrease in migrants ...

President Donald Trump ordered defense officials to come up with a plan in the next 10 days to seal off the U.S. border with Mexico, including the possible deployment of more troops, drones ...

Stars and Stripes • April 16, 2025 The U.S.-Mexico border seen in the Santa Teresa area of New Mexico on April 11, 2025. (Rose L. Thayer/Stars and Stripes) ...

The Navy this week deployed a guided-missile destroyer to join U.S. Northern Command’s southern border operations meant to deter illegal crossing and drug trafficking, the service announced ...

A 60-foot-wide zone of New Mexico land that runs along the U.S. border with Mexico has been deemed part of Fort Huachuca, Ariz., to allow troops to begin arresting people for trespassing on ...

Stars and Stripes • June 8, 2025 The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Cole arrives in port for Fleet Week Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on April 22, 2025. (Jacob Sippel/U.S. Navy) ...

Members of the Texas National Guard on patrol in May 2022, in Eagle Pass, Texas. President Donald Trump pledged Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, to send more troops to the U.S. border with Mexico under an ...

The Pentagon has spent about $376 million on new border operations for thousands of active-duty service members since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, top military commanders ...

A Navy destroyer has deployed to the Gulf of America on a mission usually reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard to help deter illegal crossings and drug trafficking as part the military’s efforts to ...

Three Marines deployed to the U.S. border with Mexico were following a Border Patrol vehicle with its lights on when the driver swerved to avoid a head-on collision and crashed into a ditch ...

Stars and Stripes • February 3, 2025 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and border czar Tom Homan meet Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, with leaders of the southwest border mission at Fort Bliss, Texas ...

Stars and Stripes • February 20, 2025 A U.S. soldier conducts a visual inspection of a passing train traveling from Mexico to the U.S. to detect illegal crossings of the border in Uvalde, Texas ...