The soldiers deploying to the southern border are assigned to engineer units that fall under the 18th Airborne Corps.

Guatemalan soldiers patrol the shared border with Mexico as part of the Ring of Fire operation, aiming to strengthen border ...

The 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border has become the center of a political quagmire in recent years, with immigration regularly tracking as one of the most polarizing subjects in American discourse.

Over the last decade, the annual number of asylum applications in Mexico has grown a hundredfold. There are growing fears that Mexico’s asylum system is unprepared to deal with the increase.