Watch Live: Vance holds a press conference for immigration after the tour of the southern border in Texas

Eagle Pass, Texas (AP) Vice President JD Vance visits the border between the USA and Mexico on Wednesday to highlight the harder immigration policy that the White House says that his second term has started since Donald Trump.

Vance is supposed to hold a press conference at 3:30 p.m. EST. Watch it live in the player above.

Vance is accompanied by Defense Minister Pete Hegseth and Director of the National Secret Service Tulsi Gabbard in Eagle Pass, Texas, as the highest members of the Republican Management of Trump to visit the southern border.

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According to the White House, Vance will visit the border, hold a round table with local, state and federal officials and visit a prison. The state authorities and local activists say that Vances Route probably also visits Shelby Park, an urban Greenspace along the Rio Grande, which the Republican governor Greg Abbott confessed from the federal authorities last year in a feud with the bidges. Abbott accused the administration not to do enough to contain illegal intersections.

“Border security is national security,” Hegseth told Fox News before the trip. He added: “We send these people home and we don't let it in. And that is what you see.”

Trump made a approach to immigration to a heart of his re -election campaign and promised to stop the flood of migrants in the USA and stop the flow of fentanyl, which crosses the border. As part of these efforts, he imposed 25 percent tariffs for imports from Mexico and Canada and said, not enough to tackle drug trafficking and illegal immigration.

“You are now strongly embedded in our country. But we bring them out and bring them out quickly, ”said Trump about migrants who lived illegally in the United States when he gave a speech to a joint congress meeting on Tuesday evening.

Although Trump has not made a trip to the border since the tenure day, the visit of three of his top officials is proof of the scope of his government's focus on the topic. He commissioned the authorities in the federal government to revise border and immigration policy and far beyond the Ministry of Homeland Security, the traditional home of most of these functions.

The arrests due to illegal border crossings from Mexico fell 39 percent in January in January, although they have dropped from an all -time high of 250,000 in December 2023 since Trump took office on January 20. Since then, the Mexican authorities have increased the enforcement in their own sizes and President Joe Bidden, a democrat, a democrat, a democrat, a present provider when the refreshments were introduced to the early summer.

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The Trump government has presented its new initiatives, including immigrants in US military aircraft for deportation struggles and sending something to the US Lockup in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It has also expanded the arrest of people in the United States illegally and abandoned, which gave a certain amount of permission to stay.

Tom Homan, border of Trump, said that migrants with criminal records were prioritized in early efforts to illegally put together and deport people in the United States, but he added from other migrants: “If they are illegal in the district, they are not off the table.”

“When we find the evil, they are often with others, others who have no criminal priority but were illegal in the country,” Homan told reporters in front of the White House on Tuesday. “You come too.”

Since the beginning of Trump's second term, around 6,500 new forces of the active service have been instructed to use on the southern border. Previously there were around 2,500 soldiers, mainly National Guard forces in active service, together with a few hundred aviation aviation forces in active service.

Of the mobilized people, many still only prepare for this. Last weekend, Hegseth approved the command to send a large part of a Stryker brigade of the army and an aviation battalion of general support to the border. A total of around 3,000 soldiers are expected to be used in the coming weeks.

Troops are responsible for recognition and monitoring along the border, but do not interact with migrants who try to cross illegally. Instead, they alert edge, which then take the migrants into custody.

The representative Vice President of Biden, Kamala Harris, fighting the basic causes for immigration during his administration to give zero why so many migrants, especially from Central America, left their home countries and came to the United States to search for or try to make it illegally into the district.

Harris made her first visit to the border in June 2021, about 3 1/2 months lower in Biden's term as a Vances trip in the first few weeks of Trump's second term. Trump routinely sustained that Harris was responsible for immigration policy, but did not visit the border or even maintained close telephone contact with federal officials.

Vance's trip also takes place when the Trump government is considering the use of the alien enemy law from 1798 in order to detain and deport the Venezolans based on a proclamation that characterizes the gang tren de Aragua an invasion force that could act at the state of the country. According to a US official, this is known to discuss internal administrative consultations about the condition of anonymity.

It is unclear how close the decisions in completion are. Some officials asked whether the gang acts as an instrument for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom the United States did not recognize as the legitimate leader of this country. There are some concerns that calling the law would require the United States to recognize Maduro more formally.

However, the law of 1798 allows the President that non -state members from a country in which the United States are in the war will be deported, and Trump mentions it as a possible instrument to accelerate its mass deportations.

Weisert reported from Washington. Matthew Lee and Lolita Baldor in Washington attached them to this report.