United States President Donald Trump sent a memorandum on Friday (11) to four heads of federal departments by instructing them to allow the military to use and assume jurisdiction over federal lands along the Mexico border.
The memorandum, sent to the Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum, the Internal Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, states that the military must “assume a more direct role” in efforts to ensure the security of the border and ask the secretaries to provide the Defense Department “use and jurisdiction” over certain federal land. “To allow military activities” in military facilities.
The memorandum states that the Department of Defense must receive jurisdiction on land including the Roosevelt Reserve – a strip of land along the border – for military purposes, including construction of border wall and installation of detection and monitoring equipment. The memorandum excludes federal indigenous reserves.
Trump determined that US military would increase their presence along the southern border on their first day, and thousands of additional US active service troops were sent as part of the continuous military mission on the border during the Trump administration, such as CNN had previously reported.
Due to the National Emergency Declaration on Trump’s border, according to Memorandum, Burgum “can make public land withdrawals, reserves and restrictions to provide use by the Defense Department.”
Memorandum also confirms what CNN In March: Plans for the military to take command of a territory range along the border, designating federal lands as military installation.
Immigrants that cross this area will be placed in “detention” by invasion of military property until the internal security department can arrive to take them and deport them. In practice, the measure puts the military in the position of stopping migrants, something that is traditionally a police function.
The military is prohibited from conducting activities of application of domestic law under the law in possession Comitatus of 1878, but by describing the area as an area of ”detention”, the Department of Defense could circumvent this law.
The memorandum explains that the four bosses of agencies “will initially implement this memorandum in a limited sector of federal lands” designated by Hegseth. However, at any time, Hegseth can “extend activities” under the memo to additional federal lands along the border.
The determination also states that “members of the Armed Forces will follow rules for the use of the force prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.”
This content was originally published in Trump authorizes military personnel to control federal land on the southern border on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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