US EditionDonald Trump authorizes U.S. military to take control of land on southern border
- Donald Trump sent a memorandum to four federal agency heads, instructing them to allow the military to take control of federal land along the US-Mexico border for military purposes, including border wall construction.
- The memorandum states that the Defense Department should have jurisdiction over lands like the Roosevelt Reservation, which is a 60-foot-wide strip along the border.
- The memo confirms plans for the military to designate federal lands as a military installation, as reported by CNN last month.
- Trump ordered a review of the new powers to be conducted 45 days after the memorandum issuance, with initial implementation occurring in a limited sector of federal lands.
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Colorado Springs Gazette
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EXCLUSIVE — The Trump administration will soon deploy the federal government’s first-ever floating buoy wall at the U.S.-Mexico border river with the installation of a 17-mile string of buoys in South Texas, the Washington Examiner has learned. The construction project…
American Civil Liberties Union
Trump's Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All
There’s growing concern that President Donald Trump might invoke the Insurrection Act to bring National Guard troops under federal control and deploy them within the U.S. This speculation may be partly because one of President Trump’s Inauguration Day executive orders, which declared a national emergency at the southern border set an April 20 deadline for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to recommend whether to use the Insurrecti…
Gabe Vasquez is Anti-Border Security
Gabe Vasquez is once again railing against commonsense border security efforts, showing just how out of touch he is with New Mexicans. Vasquez called President Trump’s move to secure federal land that runs along the border from California to New Mexico, “misguided and wasteful” as well as a “made-for-TV stunt.” “Democrat Gabe Vasquez is an […]
Trump granting military control of federal border lands could circumvent the law
President Donald Trump's memorandum on April 11 ordering the military to take control of a swath of federal land along the southern border is part of an escalating series of actions by the White House to crack down on U.S.-Mexico border crossings. But it may also be an attempt by Trump to skate around federal law.The memorandum would give the military jurisdiction over the Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-foot-wide strip of land that stretches along …
The area of approximately 440 square kilometers will be granted for three years.
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