Overview

• Pentagon deployments now total 7,600 active-duty forces from every service branch along the U.S.–Mexico border.
• The Huachuca Mountains command post coordinates armored Stryker vehicles, over 35 helicopters and long-range drones for round-the-clock surveillance.
• In April, four National Defense Areas were declared, enabling soldiers to arrest migrants for trespassing and impose enhanced criminal charges.
• Apprehensions have fallen to a 60-year low even as the administration offers $10,000 signing and retention bonuses to recruit an additional 3,000 Border Patrol agents.
• Civil rights groups and federal judges are challenging the detention powers as a potential breach of the Posse Comitatus Act.