Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Washington, April 12 – President Donald Trump instructed four federal agency heads to allow the Armed Forces to use and assume jurisdiction over federal and public lands along the United States-Mexico border.
In a memorandum, sent Friday night to Secretaries of the Interior Doug Burgum, Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Defense Pete Hegseth, and Agriculture Brooke Rollins, the president empowered them to transfer control of certain federal and public lands to the Armed Forces.
In addition, he stressed that the Department of Defense must take a more direct role in that effort by operating in military installations.
According to the text, the Pentagon will have jurisdiction (including the Roosevelt Reserve), over a strip of about 18 meters wide along the border, for military purposes such as the construction of the border wall and installation of detection and monitoring equipment.
Trump announced from his first day in office, when he declared a national emergency on the southern border in an executive order, that the Armed Forces would increase their presence in the porous area.
Thousands of additional active-duty soldiers were deployed there as part of the Trump administration's ongoing military mission along the border with Mexico.
If any migrants crossed into the area, they would be immediately detained for trespassing on military property until the Department of Homeland Security took them into custody and deported them.
This way, the Armed Forces would be in a position to detain migrants, a mission of federal troops. (Text and photo: PL)
