Military members stationed in and around portions of the southern border have been given the authority to temporarily detain and search illegal migrants. Service members with the Joint Task Force ...

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 Donald Trump is authorizing the U.S. military to take jurisdiction over federal lands along the southern border to help enforce his immigration agenda. Trump issued a memorandum to the ...

The Interior Department and Department of Homeland Security were directed to cede jurisdiction to the military. The noncontiguous land, which is about 170 square miles, runs along the border ...

U.S. Northern Command is the military’s operational lead to carry out President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. “Through these ...

President Trump on Friday night authorized the military to take control of a strip of public land along the southern border. The president justified the use of the military by saying the United ...

A narrow stretch of federal lands that runs along a major portion of the U.S.-Mexico border has been transferred to the military in hopes of increasing migrant apprehensions under a new memo ...

"Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats," President Donald J. Trump said in the memorandum. "The complexity of the current situation requires that our military take a more ...

Trump’s efforts have triggered deep unease in Washington and Mexico City about the military’s fast-expanding presence along the border, as well as whether Trump intends to launch lethal force ...

President Trump authorized the military to take control of federal land stretching across three states at the southern border to assist in implementing his crack down on immigration. The president ...

The Trump administration’s major military mission at the southern border focused on reducing immigration and drug flows has already cost taxpayers more than $300 million, according to sources ...

Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications in North and South Carolina. As an executive editor ...