
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.