Texas Border: New 'National Defense Area' Bolsters Security
US Soldiers have arrest authority
Warning signs have been posted along the border with Mexico forbidding trespassing into a newly designated "Texas National Defense Area" (TXNDA) near Fort Bliss in El Paso. The US Department of Defense's Northern Command announced the creation of the new border security zone late Thursday, May 2, 2025.
The exact size and boundaries of the Texas National Defense Area have yet to be made public. Still, it quickly follows the creation of the New Mexico National Defense Area (NMNDA), which covers over 170 square miles of federal land along the New Mexico-Mexico border.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth toured the NMNDA on April 25, 2025, and showed reporters a trespass warning sign that appeared to match those installed by soldiers along the border near Fort Bliss, Texas.
“The establishment of a second National Defense Area increases our operational reach and effectiveness in denying illegal activity along the southern border. This is the second area in which Joint Task Force – Southern Border service members who are already detecting and monitoring through stationary positions and mobile patrols nearby can now temporarily detain trespassers until they are transferred to an appropriate law enforcement entity.” - General Gregory Guillot, U.S. Northern Command
The President made it clear in his National Security Memorandum that the task of the soldiers now assigned to the US Southern Border is to repel what he has declared to be "an invasion" of the United States.
"Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats. The complexity of the current situation requires that our military take a more direct role in securing our southern border than in the recent past. I assigned the Armed Forces of the United States the military missions of repelling the invasion and sealing the United States southern border from unlawful entry to maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States." -President Donald J. Trump
In an unusual expansion of domestic military roles, soldiers in the two new national military zones have been given the authority to detain and search migrants and conduct crowd control measures, if needed.
The establishment of the Texas and New Mexico National Defense Areas follows the assignment of US Army "Stryker" crews to help the US Border Patrol secure vast remote areas of the US Southern Border with Mexico in March 2025.
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Abrazos,
Jack Beavers
I not only think it is a great blessing, Jack, I thank and praise God for this and so many other hopeful, encouraging, signs of His restraint of Evil!