Second Military Border Zone Opens
In April, Trump directed the transfer of a 60-foot strip of federal land lying parallel to the U.S.-Mexico border from control of three federal agencies (Interior, Agriculture, and Homeland Security) to the Department of Defense. This land, known as the Roosevelt Reservation, is a noncontiguous strip that snakes along the southern border from New Mexico to California. President Theodore Roosevelt established the reservation in 1907 to prevent smuggling between the United States and Mexico.
This transfer established a “National Defense Area” and effectively bypassed potential legal restrictions imposed by the Posse Comitatus Act. Federal military forces at the southern border will be empowered to arrest, detain, search, and seize anyone— migrant or otherwise— that attempts to cross into the National Defense Area.
A second such zone has been created, adding an area in Texas where troops can temporarily detain migrants or trespassers.
Defense Department designates second military zone on southern border
EL PASO, Texas — The Defense Department said Thursday that it has designated a second stretch on the U.S. border with Mexico as a military zone to enforce immigration laws.
The newest area is in Texas and is attached to the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso. Like the first zone established last month in New Mexico, military personnel are authorized to take custody of migrants who illegally cross the border until they are transferred to civilian authorities in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
“The establishment of a second National Defense Area increases our operational reach and effectiveness in denying illegal activity along the southern border,” said Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander of the U.S. Northern Command.
In New Mexico, people who entered the U.S. illegally were charged Monday with breaching a national defense area after the Army assumed oversight of a 170-mile strip that is treated as an extension of U.S. Army Garrison Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
Wasn’t there a Biden-backed Senate Border Act of 2024, affording Joe the authority to shut down the border? It crashed and burned for very good reasons, but wasn’t needed in the first place.
The Hill
Category: Big Pentagon, Border
As military property the military can make arrests, detentions and refer charges to federal court. This is big in California where pot is legal and you probably have to have a couple of pounds of Fentanyl to actually get arrested for it.
I wonder if they will come up with and hand out ribbons for a “deployment” to the Border Zone?
My son had a buddy that’s gonna be going there next month..
I guess we will see then….
They can dust off some of the old medals from various southern border adventures.
I’d really like to see a Federal District Judge try to stop THIS one…
Hold on, somebody said Boasberg is coming up the walkway now. We should pretend we didn’t hear him pounding on the door.
Dare we say… if cartel or TdA dudes cross armed:
What’s that? Spray and pray?
Those rounds are landing 25m apart.
There is no way that dude is going through the targeting process.
From target detection, to target acquisition, to target engagement, in 0.1 seconds?
It’s Hollywood. He’s shooting VC. And well-disciplined VC. And water buffalo.
It looks cool.
“How can you shoot women and children?”
“Easy, you just don’t lead ’em as much!”
I actually ripped that off to piss off somebody on a UN mission.