US Marines begin arriving at border with Mexico following Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown

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US Marines begin arriving at border with Mexico following Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown

Dramatic footage released by the Trump administration shows Marines arriving at the US border with Mexico after the President ordered a crackdown on ******** immigration.

A video shared on social media by Dan Scavino, Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, shows troops marching into helicopters before those choppers touch down next to the border walls.

Watch the footage in the video player at the top of this page

The video also shows the troops unloading their gear from the helicopters while conferring with local authorities.

The soldiers are part of an immediate deployment of 1500 troops to the border to help with constructing barriers.

Acting defence secretary Robert Salesses said the troop deployment was “just the beginning”.

“In short order, the department will develop and execute additional missions in cooperation with DHS, federal agencies, and state partners to address the full range of threats outlined by the President at our nation’s borders,” Salesses said.

On Thursday, government officials said the administration was also prepared to send as many as 2000 additional troops if needed.

Officials said the troops would not be undertaking law enforcement at this stage. Any future decision on this would be made by the White House, they said.

The active duty forces will join roughly 2500 US National Guard and Reserve forces already there. Until this deployment, there were no active duty troops working along the roughly 3200km border.

The deployment, coming in Trump’s first week in office, was an early step in his long-touted plan to expand the use of the military along the border.

Camera IconThe soldiers will help with constructing barriers. Credit: AAP

In one of his first orders on Monday, Trump directed the defence secretary to come up with a plan to “seal the borders” and repel “unlawful mass migration”.

“This is something President Trump campaigned on,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“The American people have been waiting for such a time as this — for our Department of Defence to actually implement homeland security seriously. This is a No.1 priority for the American people.”

Trump said during his inaugural address on Monday that “I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All ******** entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places in which they came”.

Military personnel have been sent to the border almost continuously since the 1990s to help address migration. drug trafficking and transnational crime.

— With Associated Press

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