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.In a memorandum released on Friday evening,

It marks an escalation in the president’s use of the military to facilitate his sweeping immigration agenda. A 60-foot wide strip of land along three southwestern border states will be placed under the jurisdiction of the U.

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.