US charges migrants over entering military ‘buffer zone’ on Mexico border | US-Mexico border
The US Department of Justice has started the first criminal trial for migrants for its entry Advertise The military buffer zone that was created along the border with Mexico, according to the court files, according to Reuters reports.
At least 28 migrants were accused at the Federal Court of Las Crossis, New Mexico, on Monday to cross into a 170 -mile insulating insulating area of 60 feet by the active United States forces.
Beit Higseth, Minister of Defense, visited the area last week and said it was the beginning of a plan to extend the buffer zone along the border.
“The reason we are here today, in the sign of President Trump’s management for about 100 days, is that you are standing in the” National Defense Zone “: this may be a military base,” Higseth said in a video of the social media in the Ministry of Defense, which was published on the Internet. “Any illegal attempt to enter that area enter a military base.”
“As the new Mexicans, we have deep concerns about the enhanced militarization of our border societies”, the American Civil Liberties Union in New Mexico in statement Last week.
“The expansion of the powers of military detention in the” National Defense Zone in New Mexico ” – also known as the” border buffer zone ” – represents a serious erosion of the constitutional principle of that the army should not be an author of civilians.
The court documents showed that the migrants detained in the area were charged with crossing US -Mexican border Illegally and entering a restricted area.
Customs protection and borders maintain the jurisdiction of the illegal border crossings in the region, and the migrant forces who have been detained to the American border patrol or other civil law enforcement will hand over the Ministry of Defense.
The forces have not yet detained any immigrants or other aggressors in the National Defense area in New Mexico, according to Migor Jeffrey Carmicl, a US military spokesman.
The area was created with 110,000 acres (445 square kilometers) of federal lands to the US military.
The idea of the military has always been a dream for right -wing politicians, such as the failed Arizona candidate for the US Senate Blake, who A campaign dedicated to an announcement To the idea in 2022.
The Trump administration’s buffer zone allowed the use of the forces to arrest migrants without calling for the 1807 rebellion law, which enables the president to deploy the American army to suppress events such as civil turmoil.
The last time it was invoked as the rebellion law during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
About 11,900 soldiers are currently deployed on the southwestern American border, where the number of immigrants who were arrested illegally decreased in March to the lowest level that has ever registered, according to government data.
