Trump plans to send an extra 10,000 troops to Mexico border as he ramps up illegal migrant crackdown

Donald Trump is further ramping up his immigration crackdown with an extra 10,000 extra troops expected to join those already helping to tackle illegal crossings at the southern border. There are roughly 2,200 active duty troops at the southern border assisting with immigration operations – and thousands more are now ordered to report at the border in Donald Trump's crackdown on the migrant crisis Mexican immigration officials and police receive deportees after they were sent back to Mexico on Wednesday, January 22 from Nogales, Arizona Members of the Mexican Navy and municipal employees set up a temporary shelter in Matamoros, Mexico on Wednesday, January 22 Already, there are around 2,500 troops at the border helping Customs and Border Protection as part of Joint Task Force-North, US Northern Command's border mission based out of El Paso, Texas. Members of the Mexican Navy prepare for potential mass deportations from the U.S. by erecting a shelter near the very southern tip of the border with Texas Trump signed 10 executive orders related to immigration policy on Monday – this includes one cracking down on sanctuary cities and another that clarifies the military's role at the border Aerial footage shows migrants being unloaded from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle as they are deported back to Mexico from Nogales, Arizona on Wednesday, January 22 Trump has not ruled out using the military within America's borders to help round up illegal immigrants for his massive deportation operation. Migrants were deported from the U.S. back to Tijuana, Mexico on Tuesday, January 21 – just 24 hours after Donald Trump took his oath office Margelis Tinoco, a migrant from Colombia, sobbed on arriving at the U.S. Border just as Trump was inaugurated to discover the CBP One App had been shut down and her appointment with officials canceled President Trump is directing federal prosecutors to investigate state and city officials who resist his immigration enforcement efforts, a Justice Department memo instructs. Border czar Tom Homan said 308 migrants were already arrested by ICE on Tuesday, which was Trump's first full day back in office Migrants walk back into Mexico after being deported from California on Tuesday, January 21 The Justice Department now warns that any officials who resist or obstruct the federal immigration enforcement could now be charged with defrauding the U.S. or even harboring illegal aliens.