A Man Is Halted Climbing the US-Mexico Border Wall. Under New Trump Rules, US Troops Sound the Alarm
NOGALES, Ariz. — Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this Arizona frontier community. The man lowers himself toward U.S. soil between coils of concertina wire. Shouts ring out, an alert is […]
US Expands Militarized Zones to 1/3 of Southern Border, Stirring Controversy
COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) — Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S. military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees. The Army has posted thousands of the warnings in New Mexico […]
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona
Hundreds more miles of federal land along the U.S. southern border in Arizona is set to be transferred to the Department of Defense, further expanding newly created military zones — and the footprint of the military’s role in immigration enforcement. The newest military zone in Arizona — the fourth border zone created by the Trump […]
First Convictions for Migrants Who Crossed into New Military Border Zones
U.S. attorneys in New Mexico and Texas are announcing some of the first convictions against migrants who crossed into newly created military zones along the southern border — a tactic by the Trump administration to deter crossings and increase legal penalties. Two Mexican citizens pleaded guilty to a violation of defense property security regulations and […]
Texas Reduces Number of Troops at Southern Border Amid Response to Planned Protests
The Texas National Guard is deploying thousands of its troops in response to planned protests of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign and is even scaling down some of its forces at the U.S. southern border at the same time. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that he had deployed more than 5,000 of the […]
Army Faces Backlash over Plan to Divert Barracks Funds to Border Mission
Lawmakers from both parties are demanding answers from senior Army leaders regarding a Pentagon plan to strip $1 billion from funds earmarked for barracks repairs and facility upkeep and redirect that money to support the military’s growing mission at the U.S.-Mexico border. The decision, reported last week by Military.com, would gut a key portion of […]
Pentagon Diverts $1 Billion from Army Barracks to Fund Border Mission
The Pentagon is shifting $1 billion meant for maintaining and renovating Army barracks to instead fund its surge of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, a move that coincides with the service’s gradual deprioritization of quality-of-life initiatives for soldiers. Redirecting the barracks funding erodes much of the additional money the Army started pouring into living quarters […]
Pentagon Sends 1,100 More Troops to Border in Continued Mission Ramp-Up
The Pentagon is sending 1,115 additional troops to the U.S.-Mexico border from over half a dozen units across the different services in support of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, the military announced Thursday. They will join more than 8,000 troops on active-duty orders who have been part of the mission since late January, though a […]
Judge Throws Out Cases of Migrants Charged with Crossing Military Zone at Border
A federal judge this week dismissed about 100 cases of individuals charged with trespassing on a newly created New Mexico military zone along the U.S. southern border, delivering the latest legal blow to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. New military zones in that state and Texas are part of the administration’s effort to reduce border […]
New Militarized Border Zone Spurs National Security Charges Against Hundreds of Immigrants
SANTA FE, N.M. — Several hundred immigrants have been charged with unauthorized access to a newly designated militarized zone along the southern U.S. border in New Mexico and western Texas since the Department of Justice introduced the new approach in late April. President Donald Trump’s administration has transferred oversight of a strip of land along […]