Trump authorizes the military to take control of all federal lands along the Mexican border

Donald Trump authorized the military to take control of all federal lands along the border with Mexico. As reported by CNN, the president "sent a memo to four federal agency heads" with this border instruction. The memo was titled: “Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions."

According to this communication, the military should begin to take a "more direct role" in efforts to secure the southern border by asking recipients to provide the Pentagon with jurisdiction over federal lands, including the Roosevelt Reservation, which spans California, Arizona and New Mexico.

Indeed, the missive was addressed to Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Collins, as well as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

"Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats. 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," Trump added.

As President Trump previously declared a national emergency on the southern border, Secretary Burgum "may make withdrawals, reservations, and restrictions of public lands to facilitate the Department of Defense's use of public lands."

"The memo also confirms what CNN reported last month was in the works: plans for the military to take command of a swath of territory along the border by designating federal lands as a military installation," they added from the cited media outlet.

Therefore, migrants crossing that area could be placed in "detention" for trespassing on military property.

During the last four years, millions of people entered the United States illegally, which led Donald Trump to make the border issue one of the pillars of his presidential campaign. Indeed, he promised to close the border, to carry out a "massive" deportation campaign and another to find the children who entered the country and whose trail was lost.