This is just the beginning,” one Defense official said about the deployment of active-duty troops to the border with Mexico.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that he and President Donald Trump want to “bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense.”

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Wednesday it has begun deploying ... a nod to the president’s directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Trump has referred to Canada as the ‘51st state ...

Whatever is needed at the border will be provided,” Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary, told reporters on Monday.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as ... guard at a checkpoint near the International Bridge between Mexico and the United States, where migrants are waiting to be processed ...

The Pentagon is expected on Wednesday to begin the process of sending about 1,500 active military troops to the southern U.S. border to help help secure the U.S.-Mexico border. The process will start with acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses signing the orders, according to The Associated Press.

The Pentagon has said that the US military would provide flights to deport more than 5,000 immigrants held by US authorities in El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California

There are already about 2,500 U.S. National Guard and Reserve forces there. Zoom in: The Pentagon will also provide military aircraft to support the Department of Homeland Security's deportation flights of more than 5,000 undocumented immigrants from the areas of San Diego, California; and El Paso, Texas.

U.S. military C-17 aircraft began flying detained migrants out of the country on Friday, following orders from President Donald Trump, as the Pentagon prepared to send more troops to the southern border,

The Trump administration didn’t waste any time in enacting their immigration agenda as ICE raids were performed in cities across the country and more troops were deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border. Former Deputy Press Secretary of the Department of Defense Sabrina Singh shares her thoughts on these developments and more.

This was the first time in recent memory that military aircraft were used to fly migrants out of the country, one U.S. official said.