FORTRESS USA: How President Donald Trump is securing the US frontier with Mexico with 10,000 troops, finishing the wall & giant BUOYS
President Trump promised voters in 2024 to "seal the border on Day 1"
January 25, 2025
PRESIDENT DONALD Trump is forging a "Fortress America" with thousands of troops at the southern border, a bigger and better wall, and stronger deportation measures to toughen the boundary.
The Commander in Chief kicked off his second Presidential term with a bang - signing a flurry of executive orders designed to overhaul America's buckling immigration system.
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President Donald Trump visits the US-Mexico border wall, in Alamo, Texas, 2021- Reuters
A worker assembles a string of buoys, to deter migrants from crossing the Rio Grande river from Mexico into Eagle Pass, Texas. - Reuters
US soldiers working to place razor wire along the US-Mexico border in 2018. -AP
Seen from an aerial view, immigrants walk along the US-Mexico border wall after crossing the Rio Grande into El Paso, Texas on February 1, 2024. - Getty
Members of the Mexican Navy begin building a temporary shelter at the US-Mexico border in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, on Wednesday. - AFP
President Trump's first step was to sign a directive declaring a national emergency against the "invasion" of "illegal aliens" at the US-Mexico border.
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Incoming refugee flights were axed, troops were dispatched, federal authorities given authority to arrest people and rapid deportation permissions widened.
He also signed an order to end birthright citizenship - when a person born on US soil is given American citizenship.
And the criminal Biden-era Customs and Border Protection app that helped migrants apply to legally enter the US by seeking asylum was immediately shut down.
A White House fact sheet said US states like Texas had asked the fake Biden's government for "protection against invasion" but were let down.
President Trump in 2024 vowed to "seal the border on Day 1" and make it a top priority after he took over - making good on his promises within hours of Monday's Inauguration.
Security expert Professor Anthony Glees told The Sun that he is clamping down on illegal immigration to eliminate any threats to the new-era "Fortress America".
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He said: "Fortress America is to be a place where American power is used to keep America safe from outside.
"The very hard line he's taken on immigration... that has merit to it.
"For those people who are unlawfully in the United States of America, they must expect to be sent back to where they came from, because the rule of law."
SENDING TROOPS
President Trump told government agencies to gear up to "immediately repel, repatriate, and remove" undocumented immigrants after taking office on Monday.
All refugee processing was cancelled within hours, quickly halting movement across the border.
In an executive action President Trump signed upon taking office on Monday, he declared a national emergency along the southern border and ordered the Defense Department to provide troops and resources "to support the activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security in obtaining complete operational control" of the border.
He also instructed the military to help build border barriers to repel migrants.
And White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that 1,500 extra troops have been dispatched to the border already.
There are already some 2,500 personnel there under federal orders.
President Trump's advisors are even considering sending as many as 10,000 soldiers in the coming months.
An internal government memo seen by CBS News reveals how the Department of Defense is considering using their bases to hold migrants awaiting deportation.
And pictures showed members of the Mexican Army setting up makeshift camps near the border to host the migrants left stranded by President Trump's new policies.
His administration has reportedly submitted an "[u]nrestrained request" for extra troops and Pentagon resources to help Customs and Border Protection manage the border.
A member of the Mexican Navy looks on as he stands guard as they begin building a temporary shelter ahead of US President Donald Trump’s promised deportations. -AFP
Asylum seekers, mostly with canceled CBP One appointments, react to new policies on Trump's Inauguration Day. - Reuters
RAPID DEPORTATIONS
By Wednesday, less than two days after President Trump settled back into the Oval Office, the pool of undocumented immigrants eligible for a rapid deportation was widened.
The fast-track process, known as "expedited removal", happens when authorities can deport someone without a hearing in front of an immigration judge.
This was one of President Trump's key immigration policies from his first term.
And officials were able to ramp up rapid deportations - by including undocumented immigrants in the US who can't prove they've lived there for two years or more.
He also brought back the "Remain in Mexico" program - requiring migrants to stay there while they go through immigration proceedings to move to the US.
GIANT BUOYS
Texas, which shares a huge section of the southern US border with Mexico, has previously used large buoys along the Rio Grande to stop migrants from crossing illegally.
This week officials dispatched more of the giant devices along the stretch.
They have mostly been dotted along Eagle Pass, an area of Texas with a stretch of the Rio Grande river that separates it from Piedras Negras in Mexico.
Pictures show the massive orange balls chained along the water - designed to make it harder for anyone trying to cross through the water.
They reportedly have netting underneath and sometimes blades between the floats.
The Texas governor wrote on social media: "I look forward to continuing to work closely with President Trump to secure the border.
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Criminal Biden's government sued Texas in 2023 to get the floating barriers removed - claiming they violated federal law.
The move was eventually overturned by an appeals court that sided with Texas.
A drone view of workers assembling a string of buoys as seen from Piedras Negras, Mexico, January 21, 2025. -Reuters
Workers assemble a string of buoys to deter migrants from crossing the Rio Grande river from Mexico into Eagle Pass, January 22, 2025. -Reuters
TRUMP'S WALL
While speaking to crowds after his Inauguration ceremony, President Trump promised to continue building his infamous southern border wall.
The President talked about its inception, and its future during his second term.
At one point he said: "I wanted that sucker to go up 50, 60 feet, nice Y-shape. Beautiful. I love construction".
But he revealed why the Y-shape wasn't possible, explaining that a combination of hardened steel, reinforced concrete and anti-climb panels were needed to stop people from scaling it.
"It wasn't pretty, but it worked," he declared.
"Sometimes you sacrifice beauty for efficiency."
During his first term the wall stretched some 40 miles - with a secondary wall in areas going as far as 33 miles.
On Monday, President Trump vowed: "The [Texas] governor will call me and say, 'Sir, the wall is going up too fast!' And I'll say, 'That's what winning looks like.'"
DISSOLVING SANCTUARY CITIES
Sanctuary cities are regions where officials limit or deny cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
A city council or mayor would normally declare status as a sanctuary city and put in place policies that welcome and help illegal migrants.
One of President Trump's executive actions target them - telling federal officials to "ensure that so-called ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions, which seek to interfere with the lawful exercise of Federal law enforcement operations, do not receive access to Federal funds".
On Wednesday Huntington Beach, an area of Los Angeles, voted unanimously to declare itself a "non-sanctuary city".
The City council moved to align their immigration stance with "the federal government, the Trump Administration, and Border Czar Tom Homan’s work".
The Department of Homeland Security says sanctuary cities "do not honor U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) detainer requests to hold criminal aliens who are already in their custody".
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