National Guard Says It’s Responding to Declared Emergency on US–Mexico Border

The move comes as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement efforts.

A National Guard soldier looks across the Rio Grande to Mexico on the border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on May 23, 2022. Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. National Guard is deploying more troops to the U.S.–Mexico border as the Trump administration ramps up border and immigration enforcement efforts.

In a statement on Wednesday, the National Guard Bureau confirmed it will send more assets to assist the military’s U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) alongside the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) in what the statement said is “an emergency on [the] Southern Border.”