India, Feb. 4 -- Pete Hegseth vowed to secure the US-Mexico border during his Monday stop at El Paso with President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan. The defence secretary met with Border Patrol agents, soldiers, and reporters gathered at the southwestern border and revealed the plans to establish a "100 percent operational control" of the US-Mexico frontier.

Hegseth's remarks came as Pentagon officials revealed that 500 additional soldiers had been deployed to Texas to oversee the border operations, New York Times reported. "The charge that the president has given us is to get 100 percent operational control of the southern border," the defence secretary said during Monday's news conference.

"That means setting the right policy, w...