Additional troops have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. The deployment is part of a nationwide effort from the Trump administration.
The U.S. Northern Command says 500 soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division will be based in Fort Huachuca — in southeastern Arizona — to support "the effort to take operational control of the southern border."
They’ll join roughly 1,600 active-duty U.S. Army personnel sent to various parts of the border earlier this year. About 2,500 soldiers were already there working with Customs and Border Protection.
Their tasks could include logistical support, like putting up razor wire. But unlike National Guard troops deployed by state officials, federally deployed troops are not able to perform immigration-related arrests.
The number of apprehensions made by Border Patrol agents in Arizona and nationwide has been in decline for several months.
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Thousands of refugees in the U.S. lost health coverage on Oct. 1 as new Medicaid eligibility rules took effect. In Arizona, unlike in most states, even children and pregnant women are being dropped. -
On Monday, dozens of agents swarmed a stretch of private land where the activists had been camped in and around a centuries-old cottonwood tree. Contractors tore down the tree and agents made multiple arrests. -
New research shows the ancient site is much older than previously thought. In fact, it’s now confirmed to be the oldest known scientifically dated geoglyph in the Americas, 2,000 years older than the first Pyramids built in Egypt. -
Protesters have been camped out in a plot of private ranch land in Lochiel for over two months now, trying to block wall construction as it neared a towering cottonwood tree that was the last of a grove slated for destruction to make way for two, parallel steel bollard walls. -
Ahmed Soliman has no ties to Equatorial Guinea. The 30-year-old man was born in Egypt and brought to the United States. when he was just 4 years old. He grew up in Phoenix. Now he’s believed to be in a hospital in the African nation.
