San Diego, California – American military staff sent by the President Donald Trump At the southern border that helped in security operations had a deep impact on the number of illegal intersection attempts, a veteran border agent tells Fox News Digital.
“It’s a force multiplier,” said San Diega Jeffrey’s chief patrol agent, a military assistance on the border in an interview with Fox News Digital. “It helps us to perform our mission.”
On San Diego border sectorTraditionally, one of the most prominent transition areas of the US border with Mexico, hundreds of members of the service from the army, Marines and Navy are distributed to help us with customs and border border protection agents.
American Marines with the first combat engineering battalion, 1st Marin Division, attach concert wire to the engineering role on the barrier along the southern border near San Ysidro, California, March 2, 2025. (Photo by US Army PFC. Dominic Atlas)
The schedules, ordered just a few days after President Trump assumed his duty, helped to stop almost suddenly at the illegal crossings of the records that have been seen in recent years.
The number of southern border understandings in February hit the lowest that had not been seen since 2000, according to CBP data, while CBP agent encounters with illegal migrants also suddenly fell, and the Agency recorded only 30,000 meetings in February, compared to over 130,000 recorded in the same period in the same period in the same period.
According to the constant, Military forces currently helping On the border they had a lot to do with recent success.
“These are not only walls and C-Žica, but also our weather road. It allows us to access, fast access, so we can move our agents … so that we can respond to an event, an event to implement the law,” he said.
It’s over 500 marines Action on the border as part of the SAPPER Working Group was assisted by CBP, in existing border barriers with additional protection, including welding the razor wire strategically set up to slow down any potential crossings and giving time of CBP time to reaction time.
American Marines with the first combat engineering battalion, 1st Marin Division, attach a concert wire to the engineering role, with the help of Vertical Mandora elevators, on the barrier along the southern border near San Ysidro, California, March 2, 2025. (Photo by US Army PFC. Dominic Atlas)
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“We are engineers who spend construction down on the southern border to strengthen the existing primary and secondary barrier that exists in the San Diego sector,” Lieutenant Colo Tyrone BarrionThe SAPPER Working Group commander told Fox News Digital, noting that the efforts of the Marines have created “an obstacle that interferes with any type of activity trying to cross the top or through the barrier.”
“This allows more time to reaction for the border patrol,” he added.
Barrion said that Marinci planned to continue their efforts from the Pacific coast of San Diego up to about 20 miles in the interior, where the interruption would then be resolved in the existing barrier caused by the terrace of the area.
Joining Marines are more companies Military engineers and military police officers headquartered at FT. Campbell, Kentucky, who broke through the landscape to help control and detection. While the soldiers do not intervene to stop illegal transitions, CBP spokesman told Fox News Digital that the troops became the eyes and ears of the agents, taking off some tanks from the plate and allowing them to quickly and accurately respond to potential transitions.
Army soldiers outside ft. Campbell, Kentucky, customs and border protection equipment. (Michael Lee: Fox News Digital)
On the Otay Mountain, which lies southeast of San Diego and looks at the border nearby Mexican city of TijianaSoldiers of soldiers located high above the popular crossing valley helped operate the CBP’s supervisory station, which can detect potential movements of illegal miles in the environment. Although CBP agents are trained and are usually in charge of managing equipment, the assistance of soldiers has enabled the soldiers to use their limited resources more effectively.
US Customs Supervisory Equipment and Border currently soldiers who have currently moved from FT. Campbell, Kentucky. (Michael Lee: Fox News Digital)
Faced with a limited Manning, CBP spokesman said the troops on the border allowed agents to focus their attention to reacting to the switches and acceptance, all done with the help of the trunk in constant contact with their CBP colleagues.
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These military forces contributed to the drastic turn in the once -fable border sector.
“They’re a great partner,” a stationary said. “We enjoy having them here.”
