The US will deploy practically 3,000 extra troops to its border with Mexico, bringing the entire variety of active-duty personnel there to round 9,000, U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, stated Saturday.

Border safety is a key precedence for President Donald Trump, who declared a nationwide emergency on the U.S. frontier with Mexico on his first day in workplace.

“Roughly 2,400 troopers from components of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Fight Staff (SBCT), 4th Infantry Division” shall be despatched to the border, together with “roughly 500 troopers from the third Fight Aviation Brigade,” NORTHCOM stated in a press release.

“Duties carried out by 2nd SBCT will embody detection and monitoring; administrative assist; transportation assist; warehousing and logistic assist; car upkeep; and engineering assist. Personnel is not going to conduct or be concerned in interdiction or deportation operations,” it stated.

Troops from the aviation unit will “help within the motion of personnel, tools, and provides; and supply aerial medical evacuation capabilities,” NORTHCOM stated.

“These deployments will deliver extra agility and functionality to additional efforts to cease the movement of unlawful migrancy and medicines on the southern border,” its commander, Common Gregory Guillot, stated.

The Trump administration has launched what it solid as a significant effort to fight unlawful migration that has included immigration raids, arrests and deportations, together with by way of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Trump unveiled a shock plan final month to carry as much as 30,000 migrants on the base — a facility infamous for abuses towards terror suspects detained after the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults — and U.S. forces have detained dozens of individuals there in latest weeks, a lot of whom have since been deported.