San Diego, California – American soldiers sent by President Donald Trump On the southern border to help with security operations, have had a major influence on the number of illegal crossing attempts, an experienced border agent tells FOX News Digital.
“It is a more powerfuler,” said San Diego sector acting main patrol agent Jeffrey Stalnaker about military aid at the border in an interview with Fox News Digital. “It helps us to reach our mission.”
By the San Diego Border sectorTraditionally one of the busiest intersecting areas of the American border with Mexico, hundreds of service members of the army, Marines and Marine have been deployed in recent weeks to help our customs and border protection agents.
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The implementations, which were ordered only a few days after President Trump took office, helped to stop an almost sudden stop for the record-sagging illegal crossings that have been seen in recent years.
The number of southern frameworks in February has become lows since the year 2000, according to CBP data, while CBP agent meetings with illegal migrants have also fallen sharply, whereby the agency registered only 30,000 meetings in February compared to the more than 130,000 registered period in the same time period in 2023 and 2024.
According to Stalnaker, the military troops currently help At the border have had a lot to do with the recent success.
“They are not only walls and C-wire, they are also our weighs. It gives us access, quick access, to be able to move our agents … to be able to respond to an event, a law enforcement event,” he said.
It 500 Marines Work on the border as part of Task Force Sapper has helped CBP by strengthening existing border barriers with extra protection, including the welding of razor blade that is strategically placed to delay possible intersections and give CBP agents the time to respond.
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“We are the engineers who carry out the construction on the southern border to strengthen the existing primary and secondary barrier that exists in the San Diego sector,” Lt. Col Tyrone BarrionThe commander of Task Force Sapper told Fox News Digital and noted that the efforts of the Marines have created an “obstacle that any form of activity disrupts the top or by crossing the barrier.”
“That gives more response time for border patrol,” he added.
Barrion said that the Marines are planning to continue their efforts from the Pacific coastline of San Diego to about 20 miles inland, where they will then tackle a break in the existing barrier caused by the rough terrain of the area.
Participating in the Marines are several companies of Alloyminders and military police officers based from ft. Campbell, Kentucky, who have been thrown away by the landscape to help with supervision and detection. While the soldiers do not intervene to stop illegal crossings themselves, a spokesperson for CBP Fox News Digital told that the troops have become the eyes and ears of agents, so that some tasks are removed from their plate and enable them to respond quickly and accurately to potential crossings.
Army soldiers from ft. Campbell, Kentucky, Man US Customs and Border Protection Equipment. (Michael Lee: Fox News Digital)
On Otay Mountain, who is located southeast of San Diego and overlooks the border near the Mexican city of TijuanaArmy -Soldiers High above a popular Crossing -Valley helped to operate a BP monitoring station that can detect the potential movements of illegal crossings for kilometers in the area. While CBP agents are trained and mostly loaded with operating the equipment, the help of armor soldiers has enabled CBP to make more efficient use of their limited resources.
American customs and border protection monitoring equipment currently manned by army soldiers from FT. Campbell, Kentucky. (Michael Lee: Fox News Digital)
Faced with limited Manning, the CBP spokesperson said that the troops on the border have enabled agents to focus on responding to crossers and making fear, all done with the help of troops constantly in contact with their CBP opposites.
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Those army groups contributed to the drastic turning around at the agree border sector.
“They are a great partner,” said Stalnaker. “We enjoy having them here.”
