The U.S. Department of Defense is now in charge of securing the country's southern border, having been granted new powers to enforce security there by President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump late Friday signed a memorandum directing several agencies to start militarizing a stretch of the southern border, an escalation of the administration’s use of the

What Trump’s order for the military to take control of border ‘buffer zone’ means for the future of migrant crossings - Move is latest step in Trump’s use of soldiers in border enforcement, typically