Overview

• The Departments of the Navy and Air Force plan to establish two additional National Defense Areas at Joint Base San Antonio and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.
• These buffer zones will raise the total to four following earlier activations at Fort Bliss, Texas, and Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
• Service members can temporarily detain migrants for trespassing until handing them over to US Customs and Border Protection.
• Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Jack Reed and Martin Heinrich, argue the areas bypass the Posse Comitatus Act and undermine due process.
• Federal prosecutors obtained their first trespassing convictions in the New Mexico NDA on June 18, and about 120 migrants pleaded guilty in the first Texas zone.