He United States Army He has created a second military zone on the border with Mexico, an area in Texas where troops can temporarily stop migrants or intruders that adds to another in New Mexico.
President Donald Trump launched an aggressive campaign to apply the immigration law after assuming the position, increasing the troops on the southern border and promising to deport millions of undocumented immigrants from the United States.
The Trump government established at the beginning of this month a strip of 18.3 meters wide along a base in New Mexico such as “National Defense Area“.
At the last minute of Thursday, the army said he had established a second border area as “Texas National Defense Area.”
He Customs Service and Border Protection of the United States (CBP) maintains the jurisdiction over illegal border crossings in the area and troops would deliver to migrants who stop the border patrol or other civil security forces, according to the Department of Defense.
Eighty -two migrants have been accused of crossing the security zone. Until now, US troops have not stopped any and the task has fallen to CBP.
The military zone allows the Government to use troops to arrest migrants without invoking the insurrection law of 1807, which empowers a president to display the army to suppress events such as civil disorders.
After his return to the White House, Trump had ordered the Pentagon and the National Security Department to recommend if it would be necessary to take measures, including the insurrection law of 1807, to deal with migrants.
An American official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Pete Hegseth’s Secretary of Defense had recommended last week that the insurrection law was not necessary.
The last time the insurrection law was invoked was during the riots of Los Angeles of 1992.
Around 11,900 soldiers are currently deployed on the southwest border of the United States, where the number of captured immigrants illegally, illegally in March fell to the lowest level that is recorded, according to government data.
