Migrants Face a Novel Criminal Charge in New Military Border Zone

Migrants Face a Novel Criminal Charge in New Military Border Zone

Immigrants recently detained in southernmost New Mexico now face a novel criminal charge of breaching a national defense area, after the U.S. Army assumed oversight of a 170-mile (274-kilometer) strip along the southern U.S. border in cooperation with immigration authorities.

US charges migrants over entering military ‘buffer zone’ on Mexico border

At least 28 people charged in federal court as civil liberties groups condemn ‘enhanced militarization’ of border landsThe US Department of Justice has begun the first criminal prosecutions of migrants for entering a newly declared military buffer zone created along the border with Mexico, according to court filings, Reuters reports.At least 28 migrants were charged were charged in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Monday for crossing …