The soldiers widen the role of the Air Force, the navy takes care of the southern border land

In a spectacular escalation of military involvement in the application of immigration, the US Air Force and the navy take up large expanses of federal land along the southern border, under a directive of the defense secretary Pete Hegseth.

A 250 -mile section, located in the counties of Texas Cameron and Hidalgo, is transferred to Air Force Control and will fall under the jurisdiction of the joint base of San Antonio and will be managed within the framework of a newly established national defense zone (NDA).

The land is being transferred from the International Borders and Water Commission, an agency traditionally responsible for the management of water and boundaries between the United States and Mexico, marking a significant change in the use and monitoring of federal land on the border.

Another 140 miles section along the border near Yuma, Arizona, will be transferred to the naval jurisdiction.

The navy deploys an additional warship to slow down illegal immigration, the drug frame at the southern border

An American army soldier uses twins while driving a Stryker armored vehicle on the American-Mexican border. (Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters)

These mark the third NDA created under the Trump administration, after movements similar to the New Mexico and near El Paso, Texas. The areas are designated as military zones to strengthen border security operations in the middle of an increase in illegal passages under the Biden administration.

Troops authorized to hold migrants – a political breakthrough

Presidents from Richard Nixon have deployed troops and reservists in active border service. But until Trump, they were largely limited to logistical support: surveillance, road construction, etc. American troops stationed in the NDAS will now be allowed to apprehend, search and hold migrants until customs protection agents and borders arrive. Migrants entering these areas can also face accusations of intrusion to enter military goods.

The Pentagon sets up a new 250 -mile military buffer zone on the border with level passages at low records

This decision is part of a broader mission managed by the joint working group – Southern Border (JTF -SB), a joint effort between the Air Force and the North American command to consolidate and strengthen military presence along the border.

To support these efforts, the army has deployed Stryker vehicles, radar on the ground and even started 3D printing drones to improve surveillance capacity and reduce costs.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said that coordinated efforts between DOD and Customs and Border Patrol had led to “Gotaways” or migrants who escape the authorities, throughout the southern border from June 28 to 30.

The American army patrols the border in their national defense zones (NDA) in Stryker vehicles. (Washington Post via Getty Images)

Legal and civil liberties concern Mont

Groups of civil liberties have sounded the alarm, warning that the policy blurs the boundaries between military roles and the application of the law and can violate the Comitatus Posse law, which prohibits the use of federal troops in the national police without approval from the congress.

“The use of the doctrine of military objectives to justify a direct military involvement in the application of immigration is a transparent cunning to escape the Comitatus Gosse law,” the Brennan Center for Justice said in a statement. “The nominal justification protects the installation, but the installation itself was created to understand and hold the migrants.”

Critics also warn that politics could create a dangerous precedent. “If soldiers are allowed to assume national police roles on the border, it can become easier to justify military deployments in the American interior,” added the center.

Andy Gould, former judge of the Supreme Court of Arizona, said that he thought that this decision was “extremely effective against cartels and completely legal”.

The American army stationed on the border of the new national defense can have illegal migrants

American soldiers were allowed to have migrants that cross military areas. (Washington Post via Getty Images)

“He did not create any border intrusion zone, and taking federal land and by declaring a national emergency and by transferring it to the military, then using the military as an exception to the Comitatus law, where he said:” It is a military objective to deal with emergency on the border. “”

“The idea that the President of the United States can use a military presence to defend an American border, I think it will be difficult to contest.”

The militarization of borders accelerates under Trump

From the president Donald Trump Took office, the number of active service troops on the southern border has increased from less than 2,000 to more than 8,000, with Hegseth authorizing up to 10,000 earlier this year.

This militarized approach also prompted drug traffickers to move tactics, turning to maritime smuggling roads in response to the intensification of land application. The Pentagon responded to the deployment of naval ships with coastal guard teams to ban drug operations at sea.

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“We know that terrorists are trying to penetrate through our border,” said Brig Barker, former FBI advisor to special operations and expert in special operations. “From that with different inter-ages is a good thing. … The military have a lot of skills and refined capacities that civilian police do not have.

He predicted that military missions against the arguments in terms of titles were going further in Latin America, “bringing this out to this fight further from our border, really in a way before being able to get closer to our border.”