Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz.

And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, the Pentagon prepares to send up to 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to carry out President Trump's immigration crackdown.

The new administration ends government diversity programs and puts federal staff on leave.

And Gazans take stock of their lives and homes that are now in ruins as the tenuous ceasefire holds.

We hope to God that the truth will be the opening of the door to goodness with security and peace of mind,

and that we will return to rebuild our homes and live a human life.

Welcome to the News Hour.

President Donald Trump's second term in the White House began with a flurry of unilateral actions,

and he's showing no signs of slowing down.

Day by day, the president's hardline immigration policy is taking shape.

A new executive order targeting migrants at the southern border comes as the U.S.

military is beefing up its presence there. Lisa Desjardin starts our coverage.

On his second full day in office from President Trump, more executive orders. Today, directing agencies

to remove undocumented migrants at the border.

And military orders.

As the Pentagon announced, it will start deploying up to 1,500 active troops to the border.

They will join the roughly 2,500 National Guardsmen and Reservists there now and have a support role, including logistics and construction.

This news, the same day that Trump's borders are, Tom Holman told Fox News, that border encounters

have dropped since Trump took office.

The last 24 hours, total apprehensions on the southwest border, 766.

More news.

Last night, Mr. Trump pardoned Russ Albrecht, a founder of Silk Road,

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