Marines border protection

 Newsweek:

Five hundred Marines and sailors from California's Camp Pendleton have been deployed on the United States-Mexico border in southern Arizona, where they've taken "operational responsibilities."

The troops, part of Combat Logistics Battalion 15, 1st Marine Logistics Group, are operating as Task Force Forge under Joint Task Force–Southern Border. They are working alongside Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. Border Patrol.

Newsweek reached out to U.S. Northern Command and CBP for comment via email.
The Marine Corps announced the deployment on July 14. Their mission includes engineering and logistics work under President Donald Trump's January 20 executive order, which declared a national emergency at the southern border and called on the Department of Defense to step in. Days later, on January 23, an additional 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton were sent to San Diego and El Paso as part of Task Force Sapper.
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They are on the border in Arizona because that is where the illegals have been crossing.  Texas has its own troops on its border with Mexico, and the New Mexico border climate is a problem for the illegals.  San Diego and El Paso are also apparently hot spots.  In my former job, I had to go to El Paso on business and also got a chance to try some of the better restaurants in Juarez.  I liked El Paso.  It was somewhat different than the border in the Rio Grande Valley where I grew up.

My time in the Marine Corps did not include going to Camp Pendleton.  My officer training was in Quantico, VA.  I served as executive officer of a Marine rifle company in Vietnam and also spent time as executive officer of a communications group in Vietnam.

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