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Carola Guerrero De León

Dozens More Arrested for Trespassing in New Military Zone Along The Southern Border

A United States Air Force Boeing C-17 used for deportation flights is pictured at Biggs Army Airfield in Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas on February 13, 2025. (Credit: JUSTIN HAMEL/AFP via Getty Images)

The Trump administration is dramatically expanding the military's role in border enforcement—and El Paso is now seeing the results.

According to Border Report, federal prosecutors have charged at least 87 individuals with trespassing on Department of Defense property in just the first week of May. The arrests follow the rollout of a new National Defense Area (NDA)—a 63-mile-long, 60-foot-wide buffer zone along the Texas border, now under military jurisdiction.

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