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More troops arrive to support ongoing Border Mission

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FORT BLISS, Texas (KVIA) - Soldiers continue to deploy to Fort Bliss in support of the ongoing border mission.

More than a dozen military members arrived at Biggs Army Airfield Saturday afternoon.

The deployments are part of President Trump's executive orders aimed at securing the southern border.

The group that arrived Saturday will be assigned to Fort Bliss, go through additional training, and then be assigned out across the border according to a military official.

On Tuesday, the acting Secretary of Defense authorized 1,500 service members to work and support Customs and Border Protection in both El Paso and San Diego.

Those 1,000 army soldiers, including the 202nd Military Company stationed at Fort Bliss, are part of the U.S. Northern Command's mission to bolster security along the border.

500 marines who had been operating as support in the California wildfires were released from that mission and reassigned to border security duties.

A senior military official said "these forces will work on the emplacement of physical barriers and other border missions".

"We currently have 2, 2500 service members on ground. Right now they're going to be augmenting that that force. We have 400 Marines that have arrived in San Diego, and then we have this element that has arrived here in El Paso. This is part of that group," Eduardo Natividad, public affairs for Joint Task Force North briefed media on Saturday.

The service members have been on detection and monitoring the border. They are authorized to do seven different tasks.

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