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Re: Trump Orders Military to Take Control of Public Land Along U.S.-Mexico Border

By: Fiz in GRITZ | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 13 Apr 25 1:19 PM | 16 view(s)
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Good idea! There is no reason ALL our US military facilities can't serve double duty for both organization and regular target practice missions along the borders. We don't need most of the foreign military bases -- maybe just a few in very strategic choke points. We do need to keep up our lethality; we might as well do that in a police capacity.

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Trump Orders Military to Take Control of Public Land Along U.S.-Mexico Border
By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Sun, 13 Apr 25 12:41 AM 		Msg. 06672 of 06916

This should have been done fifty years ago.

April 12, 2025

Trump Orders Military to Take Control of Public Land Along U.S.-Mexico Border

by Bob Price
Breitbart.com


President Donald Trump ordered the United States Armed Forces of the United States to repel the invasion and seal the southern border from unlawful entry. The president said the purpose of the mission is to “maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States.

President Trump ordered military troops specifically to “ensure the safety and security of the military and other Federal personnel in areas of military operations within Federal lands along the southern border, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Homeland.”

The president directed the DOD to take “all appropriate actions:”

(i) to provide for the use and jurisdiction by the Department of Defense over such Federal lands, including the Roosevelt Reservation and excluding Federal Indian Reservations, that are reasonably necessary to enable military activities directed in this memorandum, including border-barrier construction and emplacement of detection and monitoring equipment; and

(ii) to provide for transfer and acceptance of jurisdiction over such Federal lands in accordance with applicable law to enable military activities directed in this memorandum to occur on a military installation under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense and for the designation of such Federal lands as National Defense Areas by the Secretary of Defense.

(b) The Secretary of the Interior shall allow the Secretary of Defense to use those portions of the Roosevelt Reservation not yet transferred or withdrawn under this memorandum. In accordance with Proclamation 10886 of January 20, 2025 (Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border of the United States), 43 U.S.C. 155 is hereby invoked and the Secretary of the Interior may make withdrawals, reservations, and restrictions of public lands to provide for the utilization of public lands by the Department of Defense to address the emergency at the southern border, without regard to any limitation on withdrawals otherwise applicable under the terms of the Engle Act, 43 U.S.C. 155-158.

(c) The Secretary of Defense may determine those military activities that are reasonably necessary and appropriate to accomplish the mission assigned in Executive Order 14167 and that are necessary to protect and maintain the security of military installations, consistent with section 2672 of title 10, United States Code, and the longstanding authority of a military installation commander to exclude persons from a military installation, as recognized in section 21 of the Internal Security Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 797) and 18 U.S.C. 1382.

(d) In carrying out activities under this memorandum, members of the Armed Forces will follow rules for the use of force prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.


Trump ordered the Secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, and Homeland Security to begin the initial phase of this operation within 45 days, according to a statement from the White House. He granted the Secretary of Defense the authority to extend the activities to other federal lands along the southern border.

http://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/04/12/trump-orders-military-to-take-control-of-public-land-along-u-s-mexico-border/

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