U.S. Navy destroyers were deployed to the southern border over the weekend to help Trump administration stop maritime efforts Illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
Grace (Uss) Arleigh Burke class with a guided thug destroyer, left Virginia’s Naval Weapons Station, scheduled to deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border to execute the president Donald Trump’s Naval officials said in a statement Saturday that the southern border was enforced.
“Severe maritime capabilities improve our ability to protect U.S. territorial integrity, sovereignty and security,” said Gregory Guillot of U.S. Northern Command.
Air Force Lieutenant Alexander Grynkewich told reporters on Monday that serious people will travel to the U.S. Gulf to conduct missions to intercept drug smugglers in the sea in Shanghai.
The Arleigh Burke class’s guide Missile destroyer Gravely (DDG 107) returned to Norfolk Naval Station on July 14, 2024, ending its nine-month Atlantic deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by mass communication expert 2nd Class Anderson W. Branch)
Naval officials said the deployment highlights the Pentagon’s commitment to “the dedication of the Pentagon to combat terrorism related to sea-related, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, environmental damage and illegal maritime immigration”.
Severe USS, previously deployed to the Red Sea Intercept missiles Officials said Iran-backed Huthis fired on commercial vessels, which would strengthen “maritime efforts” and “fill critical capacity gaps” in support of the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection.
“This is an important step in the entire effort of the government to seal the southern border and maintain our sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Guillot said.
“For the United States, controlling our borders through land is not only crucial,” Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell told reporters on Monday. “Control our territory is equally important, and this deployment directly supports our Northern Command’s mission to protect our sovereignty.”
one Coast Guard Captain tells Fox News Numbers Earlier this month, about 200 immigration ships met near the San Diego coast in the past 90 days, attributed to the Trump administration’s increase in land border security.
“They had a very good lock on land… They used to get thousands of people every day. Now, they are falling down every day,” said Coast Guard District 11 Captain Jason Hagen. “So, immigrants have to go somewhere. Smugglers have to move their operations somewhere. We are starting to see the rise in the maritime environment.”
Hagen said people encountered on the immigration ship include foreign nationals from rival U.S. countries.
“We’re also starting to see the rise of other nations, which is a… national security concern because it’s not just the economic Mexicans you want to come to work in the United States,” Hagen said. “It’s also… bad actors from other countries. We’ve seen nationalities include Chinese, Russian, Uzbekistan[i],Pakistan[i]. It’s indeed everywhere. ”
Fox News Digital’s Audrey Conklin contributed to the report.
