Trump authorizes military use of public land along southern border

President Trump authorized the military to take control of federal land stretching across three states at the southern border to assist in implementing his crack down on immigration.

The president directed the secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security, in a Friday evening memorandum dubbed "Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions,” to provide the Pentagon with jurisdiction of federal lands including the Roosevelt Reservation...