Fort Bliss officials confirmed that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was visiting the Borderland on Monday. His visit includes stops along the border in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, where presumably reserve and active-duty troops would be deployed to secure the U.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited with U.S. troops and received an operational update at the southern border on Monday regarding the military’s efforts to secure it. Hegseth visited Fort Bliss in El Paso,

Mexico’s president agreed to send 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border after making a “series of agreements” with President Donald Trump regarding tariffs and the border. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also approved sending 500 additional U.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott deployed the troops to the Rio Grande Valley, where he said they'll work side-by-side with U.S. Border Patrol agents to keep migrants from illegally entering the country. Some of those troops left from the U.S. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth Monday morning. The others left from a base in Houston.

Hundreds of Mexican soldiers were mobilized on Tuesday to the border with the United States as part of an agreement that halted U.S. tariffs on Mexican imports under the condition the Latin American country cracks down on fentanyl trafficking.