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A Peruvian woman who crossed the U.S. border illegally has been acquitted of unauthorized access to a newly designated ...

A grand jury indicted several for illegal entry into the Texas NDA, including repeat offenders with felony records.

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- 16 migrants accused of illegally entering the U.S. through the Texas National Defense Area (NDA) were just indicted by a federal grand jury in El Paso. The federal government ...

They’re accused of illegally entering the U.S. as well as a 60-foot strip of land recently designated as a national defense area. The military trespassing charges have been dismissed in at least 120 ...

The new military buffer zone mostly stretches 60 feet deep into U.S. territory. A federal magistrate judge has dismissed trespassing charges against 98 people who were arrested along the Southwest ...

The Department of Defense has taken over an area along the border seven times the size of Manhattan, after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency due to an "invasion" of migrants.

“Trespassers into the National Defense Area will be Federally prosecuted — no exceptions,” Ellison said in a statement last week. Migrants who slip over the border have been at risk of ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- With the National Defense Areas now in place across the borderland region. Troops assigned to the Joint Task Force - "southern border", are actively patrolling the border ...

Worried that new Western Hemisphere Command could move 2 commands out of San Antonio, three congressmen ask defense secretary ...

El Paso grand jury indicts individuals for illegal entry into the Texas National Defense Area, with over 340 border-related ...

They’re accused of illegally entering the U.S. as well as a 60-foot strip of land recently designated as a national defense area. The military trespassing charges have been dismissed in at least ...