The plan would put a strip along the southern border under Pentagon control, allowing the military to detain migrants for trespassing on a military base until Border Patrol agents could arrest them.

President Trump issued a memorandum Friday authorizing the military to take control of federal lands along the southern border to combat illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

President Donald Trump issued a directive expanding military control over federal lands near the US-Mexico border, seeking to bolster his efforts to crack down on undocumented migration.