The Trump Administration is using every tool at its disposal to secure the border Biden left deliberately unsecured, and that includes bringing in the military.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced it will create designated defense areas along the U.S. southern border to bolster border security.
The U.S. Air Force released details about the “National Defense Area” (NDA) directive, explaining it will manage a 250-mile stretch of land along the Rio Grande River in Cameron and Hidalgo counties, and work alongside another DOD installation, Joint Base San Antonio.
Other responsibilities at the NDA will be handled by members of the Joint Task Force-Southern Border in coordination with U.S. Northern Command, to conduct border enforcement duties such as “temporarily detaining trespassers until they are transferred to the appropriate law enforcement authorities” and the “installation of temporary barriers, and signage to secure the area.”
On May 1, the Air Force press release mentions, an additional Texas zone was established. This zone will stretch approximately 63 noncontiguous miles, connecting El Paso and Fort Hancock, and will serve as an extension of Fort Bliss. Another zone in New Mexico was established on April 21.
“This designation marks the latest in a series of NDAs established to strengthen interagency coordination and bolster security operations along the U.S. southern border,” the press release states.
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In May, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas stated there had been “dozens of illegal aliens” found guilty of illegally entering NDA zones, in addition to the 60 who had already pleaded guilty to the same charges.
On January 20, the day of his 2025 inauguration, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14167 — “Clarifying the Military’s Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States” — that directs U.S. North Command “to provide steady-state southern border security, seal the border, and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States by repelling forms of invasion, including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities.”
Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States of America states that the federal government shall protect each state against invasion. Certainly the flood of illegal aliens Biden unleashed upon the U.S. counts as an invasion, and one of the traditional tasks of a military is guarding borders. In early 2021, the Department of Justice issued an opinion that such border duties did not violate the Posse Comitatus Act, as “Congress has expressly authorized the military to support civilian law enforcement under chapter 15,” as per the terms of the act, as long as troops were not involved “in a search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity.”
Securing the border is overwhelmingly popular with actual American citizens, and President Trump hasn’t been shy about using every tool at his disposal to do so.
Tags: Border Controls, Cameron County, Department of Defense, Donald Trump, Fort Bliss, Fort Hancock, Hidalgo County, Illegal Aliens, Military, Posse Comitatus Act, Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, Texas
President Trump can demonstrate his environmental expertise by restoring the entire Rio Grande as alligator habitat.
I just saw an interview with a GO from USAF ADC talking about the “defenselessness of the USA to undetectable drone swarms” and all I can think about is how long it’s taken us to get to a point where we’re starting to treat our national borders like actual borders. Y’know real ones, like they used to exist with civil and military penalties attached.
Glad to see it finally happening. The people that procrastinated on it for political points should be shot.
[…] CROSSINGS ARE ALREADY SO LOW THAT THIS ALMOST SEEM LIKE OVERKILL: DoD Declares Rio Grande Defense Zone. […]
Unless Trump finishes the beautiful wall he will still be liable for not stopping the attractive nuisance from enticing the illegals. There is no amount of “signage” that liberal judges will accept.
Crocodile and Hippo preserves could help in sactuary cities
Are they planning on doing some about the cartels? If not why not?
Gotta do something about the southern border with the failed proto narco-state of Mexico.
The only difference between the southern border of today and the situation that led to the Pershing Expedition was that Poncho Villa didn’t know what fentanyl was.
A 100 yard minefield along the border will stop all illegal entry.
If I was running a cartel, you’d best believe I’d be using some of my piles of cash buying the services of American politicians and media. It’d be a sensible investment in the continued smooth operation of my drug/human trafficking business model. I absolutely would not be surprised if sometime in the future we found out that cartel cash was a factor behind powerful Americans dropping our border security and fighting to keep it offline. Cartel bosses might be amoral animals, but I’d imagine they’re also shrewd enough to work an angle like that.
“Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States of America states that the federal government shall protect each state against invasion.”
This ties In neatly with the Alien Act of 1798, a venerable law that Trump has invoked and applied to Venezuelan gang members. Considering both together, it will make opposition from District courts seem petulant and petty.
“This ties In neatly with the Alien Act of 1798, a venerable law that Trump has invoked and applied to Venezuelan gang members. Considering both together, it will make opposition from District courts seem petulant and petty.”
U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss of the DC District vacated President Trump’s executive order 10888 that barred asylum based upon an invasion today.
This Obama judge claimed no “invasion” exists at the southern border and there is no need for President Trump to protect states. The judge also claimed XO 10888 violates the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”) protection screening standards set forth in the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security CAT regulations.
The case is:
REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT CENTER
FOR EDUCATION AND LEGAL
SERVICES, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
KRISTI NOEM, et al.,
Defendants
USDCDC Case 1:25-cv-00306-RDM