The Department of Defense is establishing two more military damping areas along the border of the southwest of the United States with Mexico. That leads to four the number of “national defense areas” where US military personnel can temporarily stop undocumented migrants to transfer what is now considered extensions of US military bases.
The US military personnel operating in the damping areas do not carry out tasks of application of the law, but can temporarily stop intruders, as they would in any military base, until they are transferred to customs and border protection staff of the United States.
The Air Force announced in a press release on Wednesday that a section of 250 miles from the border in Texas along the Río Grande River in the Cameron and Hidalgo counties will be transferred from the International Limit and Water Commission and will be considered part of the San Antonio Joint Base, Texas.
According to an official of the United States, another cushioning zone will be established in western Arizona and will be considered part of the Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma.
The US Army soldiers are outside a Stryker armored infantry vehicle, which has been deployed along the border between the United States and Mexico as part of the Joint Task Mission of the South of the Military Task Force, in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on Friday, April 4, 2025.
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Marines’s body has not yet made an announcement about the establishment of the new National Defense Area attached to the Yuma installation, which the official said it would be extended per 100 miles.
Previously, the Pentagon had established the Texas National Defense Area, which covers 63 miles, together with Fort Bliss, Texas, and the New Mexico National Defense Area, which covers 170 miles, together with Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
The Air Force said Wednesday that members of the Joint-South Task Force, under the direction of Northcom in the United States. UU. Will operate within the areas.
“Their responsibilities include greater detection and monitoring through stationary positions and mobile patrols, temporarily stop intruders until they are transferred to the appropriate law authorities and support the installation of temporary barriers and signage to ensure the area,” said the Air Force in a statement.
Last month, a federal judge dismissed the charges of transfer against 98 undocumented immigrants who were arrested in one of the national defense areas in New Mexico after finding that the federal government had not shown that they knew they were entering the restricted area.
From mid -May, the Department of Justice said that 60 people had declared himself guilty to the positions derived from entering the National Defense Area illegally in western Texas.
