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 […]
Migrants Face a Novel Criminal Charge in New Military Border Zone
SANTA FE, N.M. — Immigrants recently detained in southernmost New Mexico now face a novel criminal charge of breaching a national defense area, after the U.S. Army assumed oversight of a 170-mile (274-kilometer) strip along the southern U.S. border in cooperation with immigration authorities. Federal prosecutors on Monday applied the additional charge for incursions into […]
Military Zone Along Border Means New — Potentially Harsher — Penalties for Newly Detained Migrants
Migrants are now being apprehended and charged with trespassing on a new narrow stretch of Department of Defense-controlled land in New Mexico, defense officials and attorneys told Military.com, marking new legal battles for the U.S. government. As of Monday, at least 28 migrants were charged with violating security regulations as well as entering the U.S. […]