Washington—Price President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tlosi Gabbard Wednesday are on the southern border to highlight the efforts of the Trump administration to combat illegal crossings and drug trafficking, the day following President Trump. Joint Address in Congress in which immigration played a prominent role.
The highest administration officials are in the border city of Eagle Pass, Texas, about 100 kilometers west of San Antonio. Vance and Hegseth represent the highest -level administration officials to visit the southern border since the inauguration of Mr. Trump. They arrived one day after the Trump administration imposed 25% of rates In almost all goods imported from Mexico, citing the management of the situation in Mexico on the border, a move he sent stocks that fall.
“We need Mexico and Canada to do much more than they have done, and they have to stop the Fentanil and drugs poured into the USA,” said President on Tuesday night. “They will stop it. I have sent a detailed financing request to Congress that exactly how we will eliminate these threats to protect our homeland and complete the largest deportation operation in North -American history.”
You cross illegal border on the southern United States border they have fallen Since Mr. Trump took office. In February, the first full month in office, the White House says that the illegal border crossings reached the lowest level in at least 25 years. And the administration says that more than 50,000 people in the country have been illegally withdrawn from the United States, a figure that includes migrants with violent criminal stories.
Two North officials -Americans say there are no flights from the Defense Department planned to bring migrants to the United States illegally to Guantanamo or to other foreign countries, after the Pentagon began to supply expensive deportation flights. One of the officials said that the National Security Department is currently going with other options, but the Pentagon is maintained if they are asked to provide more flights.
The city of 28,000 people from Eagle Pass, where Vance and the highest officials go, is in the republican district of Tony Gonzalas. Its district covers most of the part of the Texas border with Mexico. Texas governor Greg Abbott and Gonzalas are present for the visit, and officials held a round table to discuss the current situation.
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Vance has visited the southern border earlier. He made a trip to the border wall of San Diego, California, in September.