U.S. Navy Deploys Warships
The United States Navy has announced plans to deploy warships to the waters around the U.S.-Mexico border to patrol as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to secure the border and deter illegal immigration, drug smuggling, and human trafficking.
One warship was already deployed to the area by U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) on March 15 — the USS Gravely, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, which has been working with the U.S. Coast Guard in drug interdiction missions in the Gulf of America.
Now, a March 19 report from Military.com indicated that the U.S. Navy was planning to deploy another destroyer to the waters around the southern border to help with security.
This report has been confirmed by the U.S. Coast Guard, which issued a statement declaring that NORTHCOM has “deployed two U.S. Navy warships to the southern border to support Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Coast Guard operations.”
“These U.S. Navy warships will operate in direct support of the Coast Guard and carry Coast Guard law enforcement teams that will enable them to shift to Coast Guard control during interdiction operations,” the Coast Guard’s statement read. “As the Coast Guard hardens and sustains its operational posture, including the arrival of these U.S. Navy warships, it is fully integrated with DHS and the Department of Defense (DoD) through NORTHCOM and U.S. Southern Command.”
The decision to send these warships to the waters around the southern border is a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s fight against Mexican drug cartels, which is one of the main issues that likely led to President Donald Trump’s historic victory in the 2024 election. The Navy warships “have significantly greater capabilities, are larger, and carry a more extensive and far more lethal array of weapons than cutter ships that the Coast Guard uses,” according to The Daily Wire.
Ships aren’t the only way that the Trump administration has ramped up border security, as the president has already deployed over 10,000 active duty soldiers to aid in their efforts to secure the border and deter illegal immigration, drug smuggling, and human trafficking. All of these decisions from the Trump administration have resulted in the lowest number of border apprehensions of illegal aliens in recorded history, which came in just the first full month of Trump’s presidency.
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