President Trump justified the use of the military by saying the United States is "under attack from a variety of threats."

In a dramatic escalation of his administration’s border security efforts, President Donald Trump has directed multiple federal agencies to transfer jurisdiction of select federal lands along the U.S.-Mexico border to the Department of Defense (DoD),

It marks an escalation in the president’s use of the military to facilitate his sweeping immigration agenda. A 60-foot wide strip of land along three southwestern border states will be placed under the jurisdiction of the U.