WASHINGTON — On April 11, 2025, a national security presidential memorandum directed the Defense Department to accept jurisdiction of certain federal lands along the southern border from other ...

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The National Border Patrol Council has endorsed the reelection of Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, who has made state lands available for border wall ...

President Trump on Friday night authorized the military to take control of a strip of public land along the southern border. The president justified the use of the military by saying the United States ...

President Donald Trump late Friday signed a memorandum directing several agencies to start militarizing a stretch of the southern border, an escalation of the administration's use of the U.S. military ...

Elizabeth Goitein, senior director with the Brennan Center for Justice, talks with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump crossing another red line. RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC: So here’s kind of a sleeper ...

A narrow stretch of federal lands that runs along a major portion of the U.S.-Mexico border has been transferred to the military in hopes of increasing migrant apprehensions under a new memo signed by ...

WASHINGTON—President Trump authorized the U.S. military to take jurisdiction over a strip of public land at the border that spans three states, a key step toward having U.S. troops play a larger role ...

Another stretch of federal land along the border has been transferred to the U.S. military, this time in Texas, expanding the territory in which troops can be used to apprehend migrants and the ...

Soldiers assigned to 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, conduct a dismounted squad patrol along the southern border outside of Sierra Blanca, Texas, March 31, 2025.

President Donald Trump sent a memorandum to four federal department heads Friday night instructing them to allow the military to use and take jurisdiction of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border.

President Donald Trump sent a memorandum to four federal department heads Friday night instructing them to allow the military to use and take jurisdiction of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico ...