EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. Border Patrol agents from Texas are heading to Washington, D.C., for Inauguration Day on Monday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say agents from the Rio Grande Valley Sector are helping secure the Inauguration, adding that the deployment for the security detail is a “very short duration.”
CBP could not say how many agents are going because “staffing levels of law enforcement operations are law enforcement sensitive.”
“CBP is contributing assets and uniformed personnel in support of our federal, state, and local partners who are executing the security plan for the Presidential Inauguration,” a CBP spokesperson told Border Report. “Our collective goal is to ensure that principals, guests, and attendees can celebrate the Presidential Inauguration in a safe and secure environment.”
Agents from the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector will also be in Washington on Monday.
However, a Border Patrol spokesman said only the Honor Guard Unit from El Paso will be sent to Washington.
On Friday, organizers decided to move the inauguration indoors to inside the Capitol Rotunda due to the frigid cold forecast for Monday.
“The weather forecast for Washington, D.C., with the windchill factor, could take temperatures into severe record lows,” Trump posted on social media. “There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way.”
According to the Associated Press, the Rotunda is prepared as an alternative for each inauguration in the event of inclement weather. The swearing-in was last moved indoors in 1985 when President Ronald Reagan began his second term.
Monday’s forecast calls for the lowest Inauguration Day temperatures since that day.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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