A Border Patrol agent pats down one of four men after the group crossed the border illegally through a gap in two walls separating Mexico from the United States before turning themselves in, Thursday,

Troops are on the ground in San Diego as part of President Donald Trump’s promise to crack down on the situation at the southern border.

One by one, an ICE attorney asked Partida to move the detainees’ cases to courts closer to their new locations. All of the people who were transferred had attorneys in San Diego, including some through a county program that represents people in local immigration custody for free.

Federal agents launched targeted arrest operations while a wave of military troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border

ABC 10News crews were on the scene as San Diego authorities, including police, lifeguards, and Border Patrol agents, conducted a perilous rescue operation using rafts to bring the migrants to safety.

U.S. officials say active duty military troops are arriving in El Paso, Texas, and in San Diego on Thursday evening.

Social media users are claiming a video shows US soldiers, military vehicles and drones patrolling a walled-off section of the southern border with Mexico after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency and dispatched additional troops to crack down on illegal immigration.

Donald Trump is back in the White House after four years and Trump 2.0 cabinet is back in action with full swing. In his first day in office, President Trump declared illegal immigration a national emergency.