Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, reacting to the post on X: "Trump's ICE publishes a graphic saying they are going to be stopping "ideas" from "illegally" crossing the border. Remind me again whether we're supposed to be a free country?"

Average monthly crossings dropped significantly from 155,000 under the Biden administration to just over 7,100 under Trump.

In a since-deleted social media post, the immigration enforcement agency declared itself the border thought police in a country that is supposed to believe in freedom of speech and thought.

The plan would put a strip along the southern border under Pentagon control, allowing the military to detain migrants for trespassing on a military base until Border Patrol agents could arrest them.

The order would empower troops to detain people attempting to illegally enter the U.S. within the stretch of land, which was established by President Theodore Roosevelt for border security in 1907. Trump authorized the military to operate in the same area during his first administration to aid construction of a wall to deter migrant crossings.

WASHINGTON—President Trump authorized the U.S. military to take jurisdiction over a strip of public land at the border that spans three states, a key step toward having U.S. troops play a larger role enforcing immigration laws at the southern border.

President Donald Trump sent a memorandum to four federal agency heads Friday night instructing them to allow the military to use and take jurisdiction of federal land along the US-Mexico border.

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 U.S. military amid its immigration crackdown.

Por Kit Maher, CNN El presidente Donald Trump envió un memorando a cuatro jefes de agencias federales el viernes por la noche instruyéndoles permitir que las Fuerzas Armadas usen y tomen jurisdicción