Trump Order transforms the federal land into the border with military installation
The American army will take control of a strip of federal land that embraces three states along the southern border in an attempt to stem illegal immigration, a memorandum on Friday from President Donald Trump he said.
The Memorandum, “military mission for Seal the southern border of the United States and rejecting the invasions, “directs the defense, interior, agriculture and national security secretaries” to provide for the use and jurisdiction by the Department of Defense on these Federal Lands, including the Riservelt reserve and excluding Federal Indian reserves, which are reasonably necessary to allow military activities “.
He wrote that it could include “the construction of the border barrier and the location of the detection and monitoring equipment”.
Marine Corps troops weld and install the concert wire along the border between the US-mexic Tijuana-San Diego Beach last month. (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“Our southern border is under attack by a variety of threats,” Trump wrote in the Memorandum. “The complexity of the current situation requires that our soldiers have a more direct role in ensuring our southern border than in the recent past”.
The federal land, which consists of a narrow and 60 feet deep strip on the border inside the Roosevelt reserve, would become a military installation “designated as” national defense areas “in which” military activities “would occur.
“Our southern border is under attack by a variety of threats,” Trump wrote in the Memorandum. “The complexity of the current situation requires that our soldiers have a more direct role in ensuring our southern border than in the recent past”. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Roosevelt booking covers California, New Mexico and Arizona and was designated as the federal land by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 to protect the border.
The Memorandum added that the defense secretary can “determine those military activities that are reasonably necessary and appropriate to carry out the mission” to protect the border.
Roosevelt booking covers California, New Mexico and Arizona and was designated as the federal land by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 to protect the border. (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Trump made a campaign to secure the border e “Mass deportations” And he focused on both in the first months of his presidency.
