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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott connected Monday announced that helium is deploying troops and helicopters to the confederate borderline successful bid to assistance the Trump medication with its caller ramped-up efforts to ace down connected amerciable immigration.
Abbott announced that helium has ordered the deployment of the Texas Tactical Border Force to the Rio Grande Valley "to coordinate with U.S. Border Patrol nether the Trump medication to unafraid the border."
The unit volition nonstop 400 further soldiers, arsenic good arsenic C-130s and Chinook helicopters. That is successful summation to the Texas National Guard soldiers already stationed astatine the borderline arsenic portion of Operation Lone Star, which Abbott launched successful 2021 to tackle the then-rising borderline crisis.
"Texas has a spouse successful the White House we tin enactment with to unafraid the Texas-Mexico border," Abbott said successful a statement.
He contrasted the Trump administration’s much assertive stance connected the southern border with what helium saw arsenic inaction by the Biden administration.
"For the past 4 years, Texas held the enactment against the Biden Administration’s borderline situation and their refusal to support Americans. Finally, we person a national authorities moving to extremity this crisis," helium said. "I convey President Donald Trump for his decisive enactment connected the confederate borderline and look guardant to moving with him and his Administration to unafraid the borderline and marque America harmless again."
The efforts travel amid a flurry of moves by the Trump medication to propulsion backmost against amerciable migration and unafraid the confederate border.
Trump ordered the deployment of the subject to the borderline successful a time 1 enforcement order, on with a slew of different borderline measures. Troops began arriving successful Texas and California connected Thursday evening, with astir 1,500 troops adding to the already 2,500 work members stationed determination successful effect to the borderline situation successful 2023.
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"This represents a 60% summation successful active-duty crushed forces since President Trump was sworn-in Monday," acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said successful a connection precocious Wednesday.
The caller stance connected the borderline was connected show connected Sunday erstwhile a diplomatic spat occurred betwixt the U.S. and Colombia connected deportations. Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused to judge deportation flights, but aboriginal backtracked aft Trump threatened tariffs and different measures.
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American officials sent 2 flights of Colombian amerciable aliens arsenic portion of Trump's deportation program. Petro rejected the flights, penning that the U.S. cannot "treat Colombian migrants arsenic criminals."
The White House confirmed connected Sunday that the Colombia's president had caved "to each of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of each amerciable aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including connected U.S. subject aircraft, without regulation oregon delay,"
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