Pentagon Extends Troop Deployment At US-Mexico Border Through September

Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,

The U.S. Defense Department stated Thursday that it’s going to prolong the deployment of as much as 400 active-duty American troops on the U.S. southern border with Mexico till a minimum of the tip of September.

The Pentagon had pulled 1,100 troops from the border final month however prolonged the deployment of the remaining 400 troopers.

“On Aug. 24, 2023, the secretary of defense approved an extension of up to 400 personnel providing support to Customs and Border Protection on the southwest border through Sept. 30, 2023,” Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Devin Robinson advised NBC News on Sept. 1.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin accredited in May the deployment of 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border for 90 days to help border officers with a attainable inflow of unlawful immigration on the border.

The Pentagon stated the troops will “fill critical capability gaps, such as ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support” however is not going to immediately take part in regulation enforcement actions.

The troops have been supposed to assist again up border officers coping with the tip of Title 42, which allowed U.S. authorities to rapidly expel tens of 1000’s of migrants from the nation within the identify of defending Americans from COVID-19.

Spike in Illegal Border Crossings

Data released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Aug. 18 confirmed that the U.S. Border Patrol recorded 132,652 encounters between ports of entry alongside the southwest border in July, up from 99,545 in June.

Migrants in search of asylum look ahead to U.S. Customs and Border Protection brokers to permit them enter the United States on the San Ysidro crossing port on the US-Mexico border, as seen from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on May 31, 2023. (Guillermo Arias/AFP through Getty Images)

According to CBP information, the U.S. Border Patrol encountered a median of two,016 single adults per day in July alone, marking a 66 p.c lower from the 6,164 they encountered per day within the first 11 days of May.

“CBP’s message for anyone who is thinking of entering the United States without authorization or illegally along the southwest border is simple: don’t do it. When noncitizens cross the border unlawfully, they put their lives in peril,” it acknowledged.

CBP One App

The latest numbers also reflect a sharp increase in use of the CBP One mobile app via which as much as 1,450 migrants can get appointments at land crossings with Mexico to hunt asylum. CBP processed greater than 44,700 people with CBP One appointments at ports of entry in July.

CBP One is for folks of any nationality in central and northern Mexico getting into the United States by land and in search of asylum or humanitarian parole.

Migrants should guide an appointment via the app and present as much as the appointment at U.S. ports of entry. If they do not have an appointment, they’d be turned away.

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) said on July 26 on the House Judiciary Committee listening to that the inflow of individuals on the border has not decreased, noting that the CBP One app “allows migrants to bypass the southern border and enter directly in the United States’ ports of entry.”

“Instead of bringing them to the southern border, you’re bringing them directly to ports of entry,” Mr. McClintock stated.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton makes an announcement at his workplace in Austin, Texas, on May 26, 2023. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration on May 23 to challenge a rule that encourages illegal immigrants to use CBP One app to seek entry into the United States.

Mr. Paxton said the app encourages illegal immigration to the United States because it “can not confirm that an unlawful immigrant would qualify for an exception, which might forestall them from being deported.”

“The Biden Administration intentionally conceived of this cellphone app with the aim of illegally pre-approving extra international aliens to enter the nation and go the place they please as soon as they arrive,” he stated in a press release.