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Senate Hearing: Commanders Outline Strain of Border Deployments, Limited Cost Data on Guantanamo Plan
Summary
Commanders of U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Southern Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee that expanded missions at the southern border and a phased migrant operation at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay are stretching resources, and that precise cost estimates for the Guantanamo expansion were not yet available.
Senate Armed Services Committee members pressed U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) commander General Gregory Guillot and U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) commander Admiral Halsey on the readiness and budgetary impact of recent orders to support border security and expanded migrant operations at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay.
The hearing opened with lawmakers citing multiple recent Presidential directives that added military roles at the southern border and ordered an expansion of a Migrant Operations Center (MOC) at Guantanamo Bay. Senators said the moves include deploying thousands of active-duty personnel and using military aircraft to transport migrants.
Why it matters: Committee members expressed concern that using military forces for migration and deportation tasks — and the associated use of strategic airlift — could reduce readiness for other missions and cost…
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