Navy deploys additional warship to curb illegal immigration, drug smuggling at the southern border

The Navy connected Saturday announced different destroyer has been sent to the confederate borderline to assistance successful the ongoing maritime efforts to curb amerciable migration and cause smuggling.

Navy officials said the USS Spruance, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, departed Naval Base San Diego Saturday to enactment confederate borderline operations.

The extremity of the ngo is to reconstruct territorial integrity astatine the U.S. confederate border, according to a connection from the Navy. 

The USS Spruance deploys to a U.S. Northern Command Area of Responsibility (U.S. Navy)

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Spruance volition heighten maritime efforts, enactment interagency collaboration and lend to a coordinated and robust effect to combating maritime-related terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, biology demolition and amerciable seaborne immigration, according to the statement.

"USS Spruance’s deployment arsenic portion of U.S. Northern Command’s confederate borderline ngo brings further capableness and expands the geography of unsocial subject capabilities moving with the Department of Homeland Security," said Gen. Gregory Guillot, USNORTHCOM commander. 

He added that with Spruance disconnected the West Coast and the USS Gravely, a precocious deployed destroyer successful the Gulf of America, the Navy's maritime beingness "contributes to the all-domain, coordinated DOD effect to the Presidential Executive Order and demonstrates our resoluteness to execute operational power of the border."

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A radical of implicit 100 amerciable migrants effort to participate the U.S. astatine the confederate borderline by rushing a borderline obstruction March 21, 2024. (James Breeden for New York Post/Mega)

Coast Guard officials told Fox News Digital earlier this period that hundreds of migrant vessel encounters were logged adjacent the San Diego seashore successful the past 90 days, prompting the allocation of further resources.

Spruance volition bring maritime capabilities to the U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) successful effect to enforcement orders signed by President Donald Trump, a nationalist exigency declaration and clarification of the military’s relation successful protecting the territorial integrity of the U.S.

The combatant bid "continues to capable captious capabilities gaps successful enactment of DHS and CBP," according to the statement.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107) returns to Naval Station Norfolk successful Virginia. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anderson W. Branch)

The destroyer volition beryllium accompanied by an embedded U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) created successful 1982.

Coast Guard LEDETs transportation retired a assortment of maritime interdiction missions, including counter-piracy, subject combat operations, alien migration interdiction, subject unit protection, counter-terrorism, homeland information and humanitarian response. 

Spruance returned to Naval Base San Diego Dec. 19, 2024, aft a five-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of cognition arsenic portion of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (ABECSG).

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The onslaught radical was ordered to the U.S. Central Command country of work to bolster U.S. subject unit posture successful the Middle East, deter determination escalation, degrade Houthi capabilities, support U.S. forces and sail alongside allies and partners to beforehand security, stableness and prosperity, Navy officials said.

"Assigned destroyers of the ABECSG, to see Spruance, were indispensable to providing a furniture of defence to U.S. forces and ensuring the harmless transition of commercialized vessels and spouse nations transiting successful planetary waterways similar the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden," according to the statement.