U.S. officials say active duty military troops are arriving in El Paso, Texas, and in San Diego on Thursday evening.

The move enacts President Trump's executive orders issued shortly after he took office to intensify immigration enforcement.

The deployment signals the military’s increased role in a much more aggressive immigration policy under the second Trump administration.

Trump signed executive orders aimed at building military presence along the border and designating cartels as foreign terrorist groups, here's what's next.

The Pentagon is sending up to 1,500 troops to help secure the southern border as President Trump pushes to stem the tide of migrants entering the country. Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses

The famil of Agent David Maland, 44, said his career spanned nine years in the military and 15 in the federal government.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed during a traffic stop in Vermont near the Canadian border was a military veteran.

Acting Defence Secretary Robert Salesses said the Pentagon will provide military aircraft to support Department of Homeland Security deportation flights for more than 5,000 detained migrants and the troops will assist in the construction of barriers.

After years of failure, Pete Hegseth is the new secretary of defense that the Pentagon needs to clean up its act and ensure the U.S. military is a deadly force.

Defense officials did not rule out arming troops on the border, but left that up to the discretion of NORTHCOM.

The Pentagon will deploy up to 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S. border with Mexico, following executive orders from President Donald Trump to use the military to seal the border.