The Pentagon announced it is deploying 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border, fulfilling plans President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office.
Migrants in shelters in Sonora are in limbo as the Trump administration cancels their appointments to ask for humanitarian parole at the U.S.-Mexico border — one of his first acts as president.
President-elect Donald Trump has promised mass deportation when he takes office, but in the absence of a clear plan, organizations that serve migrants are doing what they can to prepare.
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