U.S. Deploying 3000 Additional Troops, Stryker Brigade to Southern Border
March 2nd, 2025Via: Daily Mail:
The United States will deploy nearly 3,000 additional troops to its border with Mexico, bringing the total number of active-duty personnel there to around 9,000, the US military said on Saturday.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered elements of a Stryker brigade combat team and a general support aviation battalion for the mission, the Pentagon said.
The forces will arrive along the nearly 2,000-mile border in the coming weeks.
Border security is a key priority for President Donald Trump, who declared a national emergency at the US frontier with Mexico on his first day in office.
The new troops will ‘reinforce and expand current border security operations to seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States,’ the Pentagon said.
The Stryker unit ‘will not conduct or be involved in interdiction or deportation operations,’ it said, but rather will assist in detection and monitoring, administrative duties and transportation and engineering support, among other tasks.
“The Stryker unit ‘will not conduct or be involved in interdiction or deportation operations,’ it said”
1.5 additional men per mile, just watching, doing paperwork, building barracks and flying/driving in and out. Do they have a purpose other than just to be there?
If migrant flows are effectively hindered, labor shortages can make inflation ‘great again’. Particularly affected would be sectors reliant on foreign workers, including agriculture and construction.
This is in fact anticipated.
US consumer inflation expectations for the year ahead are at 4.6% for food and 6% for rent.
1-year expected inflation is on a rising trend since last november.