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A destroyer of the US Navy was displayed on the southern border during the weekend to help with the maritime efforts of the Trump administration to stop illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
USS Serly, a Burke Class guided missile destroyer of Arleight Burke, the Naval Arms Station disseminates Yorktown in Virginia for a deployment scheduled on the border between the United States and Mexico to carry out Donald Trump’s Border Executive Orders of the South, said Navy officials in a statement on Saturday.
“Gravely’s ability to improve our ability to protect territorial integrity, sovereignty and security of the United States,” said General Gregory Guillot of the North Command of the United States.
The Lieutenant General of the Air Force, Alexus Grynkewich, Joint personnel director for operations, told journalists on Monday that USS will seriously go to the Gulf of America to carry out missions to intercept drug smuggers at sea.
The Missile Destroyer Class Guided Arleight Burke Uss Grang (DDG 107) returns to the Norfolk Naval Station, July 14, 2024, concluding a nine -month deployment in the Atlantic. (Photo of the US Navy by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anderson W. Branch)
Navy officials said the deployment highlights the dedication of the pentagon to “combat maritime terrorism, the proliferation of weapons, transnational crime, piracy, environmental destruction and maritime immigration.”
USS Serly, which has previously been deployed in the Red Sea To intercept missiles That the hutis backed by Iranians fired the commercial ships, will improve the “maritime efforts” and “will fill the gaps of critical capabilities” in support of the Department of National Security, Customs and Border Protection, the authorities said.
“This is an important step in the efforts of the entire government to seal the southern border and maintain the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the United States,” Guillot said.
“It is not only vital that the United States has control of our border through the Earth,” said Pentagon’s main spokesman Sean Parnell to journalists on Monday. “It is equally important to control our territorial waters, and this deployment supports us directly to the mission of the North Command of protecting our sovereignty.”
TO Coast Guard Captain told Fox News Digital Earlier this month, there were about 200 migrant boats near the Coast of San Diego during the previous 90 days, attributing the increase to the increase in Trump administration in terrestrial border security.
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“They are closing the terrestrial border quite well … where they used to obtain thousands per day. Now, they are now in hundreds a day,” said Captain Jason Hagen from the Coast Guard District. “Then, migrants have to go somewhere. The smuggers have to move their operations somewhere. And we are beginning to see an increase in the maritime environment.”
Hagen said that those found aboard migrant ships include foreign citizens from US adversary countries.
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“We are also beginning to see an increase in other nationalities, which is a … National Security concern because they are not just their economic Mexicans who seek to come to the United States for work,” said Hagen. “It is also … bad actors from other countries. We have seen nationalities to include Chinese, Russian, Uzbekistan (i), Pakistan (i). It really is everywhere.”
Audrey Conklin of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
