Part of the US-Mexico border wall near El Paso, Texas, on June 6, 2024.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed a memorandum of understanding instructing several agencies to launch military operations in order to begin escalating the use of US military administration amid immigration crackdowns.

The move, first reported by the Washington Post last month, could potentially place members of the US military Direct contact with immigrantsa possibility of a violation of federal law.

Note The Department of the Interior will direct the Department of Defense to have jurisdiction over a portion of federal land known as Roosevelt Reservations, excluding Native American reservations.

By creating a military buffer zone that extends across the US-Mexico border in Arizona, California, California and New Mexico, it means that immigrants across the US will trespass at military bases and therefore allow active duty forces to hold them until the arrival of US border patrol agents.

Domestic and military experts raised concerns that controlling the land to the military could violate the Congress Comittatas Act, a law of 1878 that generally prohibits the military from being used by domestic law enforcement agencies.

Friday’s memo says it will direct “stage-in-depth” implementation within 45 days and can be expanded over time.

The memo is directed at secretaries of the Department of Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security.

“The complexity of the current situation requires that our troops play a more direct role in securing southern borders than in recent past,” according to the memo.

Friday’s announcement comes from Trump from his secretary of defense and homeland security by April 20 following recommendations on whether to use the Rebellion Act of 1807 to support mass deportation.

The memo states: “In cooperation with the Secretary of the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the assistants of the President and Homeland Security Advisor, and other enforcement departments and agencies, activities under this Memorandum can be extended along the southern border to the Memorandum.”

The memo also said that Trump once signed earlier this year to “clear the role of the military in protecting the integrity of US territorial entities.”

That executive order is one of them 5 things to lay out military use It will expand other enforcement power across borders within the United States to accelerate the president’s crackdown on immigration.