{"id":168504,"date":"2025-04-13T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=168504"},"modified":"2025-04-12T18:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T22:02:21","slug":"president-trump-memo-gives-military-authority-to-operate-from-federal-lands-along-the-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=168504","title":{"rendered":"President Trump memo gives military authority to operate from federal lands along the southern border"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump signed a memorandum that allows the U.S. military to conduct more activities on federal lands along the southern border. The military will be able to do things like construct border-barriers and set up monitoring equipment. The Secretary of Defense has leeway when determining what military activities will be needed to seal the border. The U.S. military would also be able to ask the states to provide National Guard members, under title 32, to support the Department of Defense’s mission at the border to include supporting law enforcement activities.<\/p>\n

From The Guardian:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The memorandum added that the Department of Defense should be given jurisdiction to federal lands, including the Roosevelt Reservation, a 60ft-wide strip that stretches over California, Arizona and New Mexico. Doing that would give troops stationed there the legal right to detain immigrants accused of trespassing on what in effect is an elongated base — and unauthorized immigrants would be held in custody until they could be turned over to immigration agents.<\/p>\n

Military activities that could be carried out on federal land include “border-barrier construction and emplacement of detection and monitoring equipment”, according to the memorandum.<\/p>\n

After 45 days, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, will assess the “initial phase” of the order. But at any time, Hegseth could extend the amount of federal land included in the memorandum.<\/p>\n

The ordered military takeover excludes Native American reservations, according to the memorandum.<\/p>\n

Friday’s order is the latest step from Trump in his administration’s ongoing focus on immigration enforcement, which has involved declaring a national emergency on the southern border.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, a US federal judge ruled that the Trump administration was allowed to require people who are in the country but not citizens to register with the federal government, a requirement that advocates say hasn’t been universally implemented since it was enacted as a law in the 1940s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Olapido, G. (2025, April 12). Trump authorizes US military to take control of land at US-Mexico border. The Guardian<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump, D. J. (2025, April 11). Military mission for sealing the southern border of the United States and repelling invasions. White House; Presidential Actions<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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