Trump’s Order turns federal land to US border into military installation

The US military will take control of the federal land, covering three states along the southern border, seeking to stop illegal immigration, the Memorandum on Friday to President Donald Trump said.

Memorandum “Military Mission for Sealing of the southern border The United States and repulsion of invasions “directs the Secretaries of Defense, Internal Affairs, Agriculture and Security” to ensure the use and jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense on the occasion of such federal lands, including the reservation of Roosevelt and excluding the federal Indian reservations. “

He wrote that it could include “border construction and expansion of equipment for detection and monitoring.”

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Marine Corps welding troops and install Concentina WIRE along American Mexico-Tihuan-San Diego on the beach last month. (Carlos moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“Our southern border is attacked by various threats,” Trump wrote in the memorandum. “The complexity of the current situation requires that our military have taken away a more direct role in providing our southern border than in the recent past.”

The federal land consisting of a narrow, 60-foot strip on the border within the framework of Roosevelt will become a “military installation” intended as “national defense regions”, where “military events” take place.

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“Our southern border is attacked by various threats,” Trump wrote in the memorandum. “The complexity of the current situation requires that our military have taken away a more direct role in providing our southern border than in the recent past.” (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Roosevelt’s reservation covers California, New Mexico and Arizona and was appointed federal land by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 to keep the border safe.

The memorandum added that the Defense Minister could “determine the military activities that need and appropriate to comply with the Border Security Mission.

Roosevelt’s reservation covers California, New Mexico and Arizona and was appointed federal land by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 to keep the border safe. (Carlos moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Trump campaigned on the border providing and “mass deportations” And he focused on both in the first months of his presidency.