The Mexican Border Defense Medal is identical in design to the Mexican Border Service Medal from 1918. The medal is bronze with a yellow and green ribbon symbolizing civic virtue by serving the ...

Four days after confirming that it was creating a new medal for troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Department of Defense released the first look for the award. The Pentagon released the ...

In August 2025, the Trump administration announced it would paint the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border black in the hopes the wall would become hotter and thus deter people from climbing it. A mural ...

The Defense Department has established the Mexican Border Defense Medal for U.S. troops who have deployed to the southern border since Jan. 20 to support agents with U.S. Border and Customs Protection ...

To get drugs and people across the United States border, a Mexican man named Javi carefully traces a route through dangerous terrain. A self-described member of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, he says the ...

More than a dozen heavily armed Mexican soldiers accidentally crossed over the US border into New Mexico while searching for drug traffickers and gunrunners — and instead surrounded two American ...

The medal was established in August to recognize United States military service members deployed to the country's southern ...

Since the mid-19th century, the United States has frequently employed the US Army on its southern border to perform various roles in support of the Nation—from outright war, to patrolling the border, ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. troops serving along the southern border since Jan. 20 to support Border and Customs Protection agents can now receive the Mexican Border Defense Medal, according to a Pentagon memo.