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Trump Coordinates With Interior, Agriculture, DHS to Ramp Up Military Presence Along Southern Border

In a Friday news dump, President Donald Trump announced a memorandum to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) Brooke Rollins, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to authorize a “Military Mission for Sealing the Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions.”

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The Roosevelt Reservation is a 60-foot-wide strip of federal land established in 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt, spanning roughly 700 miles along the southern border with Mexico.

Incorporated within National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-4, Trump dictated: “This memorandum provides additional guidance on securing the southern border to the heads of certain executive departments.” The memorandum further outlines that Sec. of Interior Burgum and Agriculture Sec. Rollins are tasked with carving out a 60-foot wide strip of land along the Roosevelt Reservation, which borders California, Arizona, and New Mexico, and place it under military jurisdiction for the task of border enforcement and deterrence of illegal alien invasions:

The order would empower troops to detain people attempting to illegally enter the U.S. within the stretch of land, which was established by President Theodore Roosevelt for border security in 1907. Trump authorized the military to operate in the same area during his first administration to aid construction of a wall to deter migrant crossings.

The memorandum marks an escalation in the president’s use of the military to facilitate his sweeping crackdown on immigration. And while unclear how far the administration will go, it could be an additional step to militarizing the nation’s southwestern border.

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