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The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, visited the South borderdeclaring a “new era of determination” as the Trump administration doubles into its efforts to ensure the border and stop illegal immigration.
“Due to President Donald Trump, this is a new era at the southern border, a new era of determination, a new age of cooperation. And in the Department of Defense, we are proud to be part of it,” Hegesh told journalists From a press conference in El Paso, Texas, after Hegseth had traveled the border.
Hegseth emphasized that, instead of focusing on the foreign territory, the administration wanted to focus first on American sovereignty.
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Heghseth, visits the Texas border to inspect the efforts against irregular migrants with Tom Homan, who is in charge of border security in Texas, United States, on February 3, 2025. ((Photo of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth/Anadolu through Getty Images)))
“The boys and girls of my generation have spent decades in foreign countries that protect other people’s borders. It is time for us to ensure our own border,” he said.
Trump displayed the US Army. Uu. To the border on his first day in office, with more 1,500 troops that unite forces Already there. It is part of a bombing that has been correlated with a strong fall in the meetings on the southern border.
Hegseth said that men and women sent to the border are excited to be there.
“They are motivated to be here because they are defending their friends, their family, their communities, their church, their schools, their loved ones from an invasion of people whose intentions we do not know,” he said. “We are going to get control of this border.”
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A group of people crosses the border between the United States and Mexico from Ciudad Juárez, state of Chihuahua, Mexico, in Sunland Park, New Mexico, USA, on Friday, January 24, 2025. (Justin Hamel/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
Hegesh’s visit to the southern border is the last trip focused on the migration of a Trump cabinet official.
Your trip comes later Secretary of the DHS Kristi Noem He was on the southern border of Del Rio, Texas, Saturday. She said she was there to see “firsthand what is happening and how we can better support our border patrol agents.”
“Under the president (Trump) The days of the open borders have ended, “he said.
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Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco RubioThat he had a first week full of migration in office, he left on Saturday for his first trip abroad to Latin America.
His visit includes trips to Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. It is expected to return on Thursday, and the problems that include migration, drug trafficking and gang violence are expected to be at the top of their agenda.
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Hegseth spoke along with the tsar of the Tom Homan border, who said that what was happening with the use of military agencies and other government agencies to facilitate security and deportations is a “change of play.”
“Finally we will succeed and we will have an operational control of our southern border with this president in charge,” he said.
