Navy Deploys Missile-Destroyer Warship to US-Mexico Border to 'Restore Territorial Integrity'

USS Spruance (Credit: U.S. Northern Command)

A U.S. warship has been deployed to help "to restore territorial integrity at the U.S. southern border," according to the U.S. Northern Command.

The destroyer USS Spruance departed Naval Base San Diego on March 22 to support operations at the southern border. The deployment will focus on combating maritime-related terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, environmental destruction and illegal seaborne immigration.