WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the newly created New Mexico National Defense Area today to meet with service members assigned to Joint Task Force Southern Border. "This is ...

In a dramatic escalation of military involvement in immigration enforcement, the U.S. Air Force and Navy are taking over vast new swathes of federal land along the southern border, under a directive ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Defense Department has received more land to establish a second military zone along the U.S. border with Mexico, this one in El Paso as an extension of Fort Bliss to allow troops ...

President Trump designated federal land near the US-Mexico border as part of an Army base. The controversial order allows US troops to detain migrants as trespassers. Federal law bars US military ...

The military is expanding its authority and reach along swaths of the southern U.S. border where troops have been empowered to detain people who enter the country illegally. Designated militarized ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addresses service members at Fort Bliss, Texas, and Joint Task Force Southern Border, to discuss the efforts they are undertaking to establish the New Mexico National ...