🌎 North America Apr 2, 2026 · Agnel Philip

Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U.S. Southern Border

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Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U.S. Southern Border
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Our reporting started, like much of our work, in a spreadsheet. As I parsed through federal court data, I noticed something odd: Within months of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, prosecutors began filing obscure charges related to trespassing on military property — so many, in fact, that more cases were filed in 2025 than in the prior decade.



Nearly all of these charges originated from cases along the U.S. southern border, where last spring, the White House designated la

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