The president has directed the U.S. military to reinforce the border, and the acting secretary of defense on Wednesday announced the Pentagon is sending around 1,500 active duty troops to the country’s southern border, joining 2,500 active duty personnel already there.

Defense officials are trying to figure out how to hold thousands of people on an aging military base with minimal staff.

President Trump, in his first days in office, has released a series of executive orders that will reshape the country’s immigration system. We lay out the key changes.

WASHINGTON—Pentagon officials are planning options for using federal troops to secure the U.S.-Mexico border against drug traffickers, human smugglers and migrants, a potentially major shift in military priorities ordered by President Trump,

The president suggested 30,000 migrants could be housed on the base. It is unclear how the plan will take shape.

This is just the beginning,” one Defense official said about the deployment of active-duty troops to the border with Mexico.

President Donald Trump has signed 10 executive orders on immigration and issued a slew of edicts to carry out promises of mass deportations and border security.

Border czar Tom Homan told NBC News that several people with criminal convictions were apprehended in Chicago.

Agents from a handful of federal agencies combined to arrest more than 40 people in the country illegally early Sunday during a raid in Adams County, the local office of the Drug Enforcement Administration said.

President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

Among President Trump’s many immigration policies implemented since he took office, his plan for mass deportations has rattled migrant communities in Colorado and beyond.