The U.S. government is asking people to avoid traveling to certain areas of the Texas-Mexico border due to security concerns.

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The troops, part of a unit called the Texas Tactical Border Force, will join those already deployed to the border through Texas' Operation Lone Star.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the additional troops will work alongside federal border agents amid the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday said he's sending more than 400 soldiers from Houston and Fort Worth to the U.S.-Mexico border to collaborate with Border Patrol agents, according to new reporting from the Texas Tribune.

The new Texas National Guard and military troops sent recently to the Rio Grande Valley will assist Border Patrol agents on the border of South Texas. They were holding training exercises Tuesday at a park in Mission,

Mexico border as part of the military’s fulfillment of an order by President Donald Trump to make border security a top priority of the Defense Department.