A National Defense Area is federal land where military forces are installed, according to an executive order from April 11. The military zones were expressly created as part of Trump’s plan to ...

SAN ANTONIO, Tx — The Trump administration has announced that Joint Base Lackland in San Antonio will be used again to house ...

The Pentagon has announced the establishment of a new national defense area (NDA) spanning 140 miles along the U.S.-Mexico ...

The U.S. Air Force will manage the new NDA, which will cover approximately 250 miles of the Rio Grande in Cameron and Hidalgo ...

Service members with the Joint Task Force-Southern Border (JTF-SB) are now authorized to conduct several security measures in the New Mexico National Defense Area (NMNDA), U.S. Northern Command ...

The Ecuadorian man was acquitted by a jury on a separate charge after crossing into the new military zone in May.

U.S. troops have begun directly detaining immigrants accused of trespassing on a recently designated national defense zone along the southern U.S. border, in an escalation of the military’s ...

The US Department of Defense is significantly expanding a militarised zone along the southern border in Texas, granting ...

Officials say he had previously been apprehended in the National Defense Area on May 7, 2025. Mexican national Eduardo Herrera-Juvencio also pleaded guilty to re-entry after deportation, willfully ...

The southern end of the Continental Divide Trail – the longest of the country's National Scenic Trails, running 3,100 miles from Mexico to Canada – now lies within the area controlled by the ...

"This National Defense Area will enhance our ability to detect, interdict, and prosecute the illegal aliens, criminal gangs, and terrorists who were able to invade our country without consequence ...