President Trump authorized the military to take control of federal land stretching across three states at the southern border to assist in implementing his crack down on immigration. The president ...

President Donald Trump is authorizing the U.S. military to take jurisdiction over federal lands along the southern border to help enforce his immigration agenda. Trump issued a memorandum to the ...

Donald Trump has authorized the US military to control a strip of land along the southern border. The order transfers jurisdiction of federal lands to the Department of Defense. The military will ...

President Donald Trump late Friday signed a memorandum directing several agencies to start militarizing a stretch of the southern border, an escalation of the administration’s use of the U.S ...

The memo excludes Federal Indian Reservations. Trump mandated that the US military step up its presence along the southern border on his first day in office, and thousands of additional active ...

a key step toward having U.S. troops play a larger role enforcing immigration laws at the southern border. In a presidential memorandum released Friday evening, Trump ordered the Defense ...

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U.S. troops deployed to the southern border can now conduct patrols in Stryker armored vehicles, according to U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM. The move comes after Defense Secretary Pete ...

And while unclear how far the administration will go, it could be an additional step to militarizing the nation’s southwestern border. “Our southern border is under attack from a variety of ...

FORT BLISS, Texas — Joint Task Force-Southern Border, a newly-announced headquarters element from the 10th Mountain Division, assumed control of the southern border mission on March 14 ...

The Pentagon has authorized an expanded role for U.S. troops stationed at the southern border. Troops will now conduct mobile ground-based monitoring, including patrolling in vehicles and on foot.