The Trump administration released a video on Friday of the U.S. Marine Corps arriving at the southern border between the United States and Mexico and helping assist U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents as they undertake a mission to “secure America.”
On Friday afternoon, the White House shared a video on X, formerly Twitter, showcasing the U.S. Marine Corps’ arrival at the southern border. The White House tweeted, “The US Marine Corps Is On The Border Assisting CBP With The Mission To Secure America. Promise Made –> Promise KEPT!”
In the video, the U.S. Marines can be seen arriving in Boeing V-22 Osprey aircraft, unloading at the southern border, and talking with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
Earlier this week, the Department of Defense announced that 1,500 active-duty U.S. troops were being sent to the southern border along with intelligence and air assets to “augment troops already conducting enforcement operations in that region.” President Donald Trump’s Department of Defense also announced that the 1,500 active-duty troops would include 500 Marines.
“We anticipate that overall, on the southwest border, [active-duty personnel] will provide real-time situational awareness of persons, vehicles, vessels and aircraft; and they’ll work with [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] on operator-level maintenance, movement and staging of [CBP] assets,” Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said.
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Salesses explained that the Department of Defense is planning to “develop and execute additional missions” in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, other federal agencies, and state partners to “address the full range of threats outlined by the [president] at our nation’s borders.”
In addition to the video shared by the White House on Friday, Bill Melugin, a Fox News correspondent, shared pictures on social media of the Marine Corps at the southern border.
“Photos of US Marines deployed to the border & assisting Border Patrol, per senior admin official,” the Fox News correspondent tweeted. Per NORTHCOM, the Marines are from the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, & the 7th Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group. Both Camp Pendleton.”