The US has sent a second warship to patrol off the coast of Mexico

The U.S. authorities has deployed different warship to waters adjacent Mexico arsenic portion of President Donald Trump’s telephone to unafraid its confederate border.

The USS Spruance is the 2nd Navy destroyer that served successful the Red Sea to beryllium ordered to enactment the U.S. Northern Command’s mission.

Spruance departed U.S. Naval Base San Diego connected Saturday, conscionable days aft the USS Gravely deployed to the Gulf of Mexico arsenic portion of the U.S. military’s effect to Trump’s enforcement bid declaring a nationalist exigency astatine the border.

Gen. Gregory Guillot, the commandant of U.S. Northern Command, said the deployment volition absorption connected combating maritime-related terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, biology demolition and amerciable seaborne immigration.

“With Spruance disconnected the West Coast and USS Gravely successful the Gulf of America, our 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,” helium said.

Spruance volition patrol successful U.S. and planetary waters adjacent the Mexico-U.S. borderline from its homeport of Naval Station San Diego. Just similar Gravely which is based astatine Mayport, Florida, Spruance volition besides see a U.S. Coast Guard instrumentality enforcement detachment (LEDET) to assistance with maritime interdiction missions.

The USS Spruance prepares to permission larboard successful San Diego. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Claire M. Alfaro)

The deployment of 2 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers represents “an unprecedented attraction of naval assets for borderline information operations,” Newsweek reported.

The Arleigh Burke-class are U.S. warships known arsenic multi-mission aboveground combatants, susceptible of engaging targets on, supra and beneath the surface. They tin run independently oregon arsenic portion of bearer onslaught groups, aboveground enactment groups, amphibious acceptable groups and replenishment groups.

Spruance returned to its homeport conscionable earlier Christmas aft serving 5 months with the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, during which clip it operated successful the Red Sea.

Gravely besides operated successful the Red Sea past year. Both warships were deployed to antagonistic attacks by Houthi rebels based successful Yemen connected some commercialized shipping and U.S. warships operating successful the region.

The maritime-based strategy is successful effect to the anticipation that transgression organizations accommodate to heightened borderline information measures connected land. Detecting and interdicting illicit cause traffickers connected the precocious seas involves important inter-agency and planetary coordination, the U.S. Coast Guard says.

The thought is to marque definite that maritime routes are not seen arsenic much charismatic alternatives for smugglers who are progressively utilizing blase vessels, including remote-operated submersibles, to smuggle drugs into the U.S.

Previous associated operations involving the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard person yielded important results, Newsweek reported. Last year, the collaboration efforts prevented astir 15 tons of cocaine from entering the U.S.

With reports from Newsweek, Infobae, Latin Times, United States Coast Guard News and USNI News