Overview

• President Trump issued a directive transferring jurisdiction of a 60-foot-wide strip of federal land, the Roosevelt Reservation, to the Department of Defense.
• The military is tasked with constructing border barriers, deploying monitoring systems, and temporarily detaining migrants crossing into the designated area.
• The memorandum excludes Native American reservations and frames the move as necessary to address threats to U.S. sovereignty and security.
• Critics argue the directive may circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act, which limits military involvement in domestic law enforcement.
• A 45-day phased implementation period is underway, with potential for the Secretary of Defense to expand military jurisdiction to additional federal lands along the border.