Officials warned residents across the South that the effects of a major winter storm were not over, and that driving remained a hazard on roads frozen with slippery ice.
President Trump's Department of Homeland Security finds "an actual or imminent mass influx" of illegal immigrants at the southern border.
Illegal crossings at the southern border were lower in December 2024 than in December 2020, Border Patrol data showed.
More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
The US Department of Defense is deploying 1,500 active-duty service members along with additional air and intelligence assets to the southern border to support enforcement operations already underway.
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The U.S. military has deployed approximately 1,500 troops to the southern border to aid the Department of Homeland Security’s border security measures.
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to close the country's southern border. It concerns the closure of entry for illegal migrants, the White House website reports. "The President has the authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act,
President Trump issued a raft of executive orders that effectively block migrants from entering the United States and applying for asylum, closing off major legal channels for immigration.
Thousands of additional active duty US troops are being ordered to the southern US border with Mexico, just two days after President Donald Trump mandated that the US military step up its presence there,