Trump Signs Executive Order Sending 1,500 Troops To Southern Border

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday sending an additional 1,500 troops to the southern border of the United States, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

Leavitt spoke to the press outside the White House on Wednesday afternoon, where she shared news of the president’s latest executive order.

“This comes off of his day one action, as I just talked about on Fox News, to direct the Department of Defense to make homeland security a core mission of the agency,” Leavitt said. “This is something President Trump campaigned on, the American people have [been] waiting for such a time as this – for our Department of Defense to actually take homeland security seriously.”

“This is a number one priority of the American people and the president has already delivered,” she added.

Leavitt elaborated further that “securing the bordering and deporting illegal immigrants from this country.”

She continued: “President Trump is sending a very strong message to people around this world – if you are thinking about breaking the laws of the United States of America, you will be returned home. You will be arrested. You will be prosecuted.”

The news is the latest update on Trump’s actions related to the border crisis. The Daily Wire reported on January 20 that Trump would declare a national emergency at the southern border and take a wide range of immigration-related executive actions, including deploying the military to the border, suspending refugee resettlement, and ending birthright citizenship.