Trump order turns federal land at US border into navy set up

[ad_1] The U.S. navy will take management of a strip of federal land that spans three states alongside the southern border in an effort to stem unlawful immigration, a memorandum Friday by President Donald Trump stated.

The memorandum, "Navy Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the USA and Repelling Invasions," directs the secretaries of Protection, Inside, Agriculture and Homeland Safety "to supply for the use and jurisdiction by the Division of Protection over such Federal lands, together with the Roosevelt Reservation and excluding Federal Indian Reservations, which might be moderately essential to allow navy actions."

He wrote it might embody "border-barrier building and emplacement of detection and monitoring tools."

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Marine Corps troops weld and set up concertina wire alongside the U.S.-Mexico Tijuana-San Diego Seashore border final month. (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu by way of Getty Photographs)

"Our southern border is beneath assault from quite a lot of threats," Trump wrote within the memorandum. "The complexity of the present state of affairs requires that our navy take a extra direct position in securing our southern border than within the latest previous."

The federal land, which consists of a slender, 60-foot-deep strip on the border throughout the Roosevelt Reservation, would turn into a "navy set up" designated as "Nationwide Protection Areas" the place "navy actions" would happen.

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"Our southern border is beneath assault from quite a lot of threats," Trump wrote within the memorandum. "The complexity of the present state of affairs requires that our navy take a extra direct position in securing our southern border than within the latest previous." (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Publish by way of Getty Photographs)

The Roosevelt Reservation covers California, New Mexico and Arizona and was designated as federal land by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 to maintain the border safe.

The memorandum added that the secretary of protection can "decide these navy actions which might be moderately obligatory and acceptable to perform the mission" of protecting the border safe.

The Roosevelt Reservation covers California, New Mexico and Arizona and was designated as federal land by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 to maintain the border safe. (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu by way of Getty Photographs)