President Donald Trump on Friday authorized the U.S. military to occupy and take jurisdiction over public lands along the southern border with Mexico.
“Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats,” Trump wrote in a National Security Presidential Memorandum released by the White House. “The complexity of the current situation requires that our military take a more direct role in securing our southern border than in the recent past.”
The memo builds on Trump’s Inauguration Day declaration of a national emergency at the southern border. The declaration requested a report within 90 days from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.”
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