Just two days after President Trump signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency on our southern border (see CONFIRMED: Trump Will Sign EOs Today Sending Military to the Border and Ending Birthright Citizenship – RedState and It Begins: US Military Orders Troops to Southern Border As Trump Vows to ‘Repel Forms of Invasion’ – RedState), the Department of Defense has ordered about 1,500 active duty soldiers and possibly a Marine contingent to augment the 2,500 active-duty troops already on the border.
“First operations for them should commence within the next 24-48 hours, they’re moving right now, as we sit here,” a senior military official told reporters on Wednesday.
Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said he directed the Defense Department to “begin augmenting its forces at the southwest border” with 1,500 ground personnel…
