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Days after the Trump administration announced it was expanding the militarized border zone into California, the country’s top border security chiefs, who toured the San Diego border Saturday, revealed few insights about what that might actually look like.
White House “border czar” Tom Homan and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott used the visit to San Diego to outline the security operations implemented at the U.S.-Mexico border nearly one year after President Donald Trump took office — from increased immigration enforcement to the militarized zones that now stretch across parts of every state along the southwestern border.
The latest was announced Wednesday by the Department of the Interior, which is transferring the jurisdiction of about 740 acres of public land in San Diego and Imperial counties to the Department of the Navy to establish a restricted military zone known as a National Defense Area, or NDA.
The zone extends from the western boundary of the Otay Mountain Wilderness Area in San Diego County to roughly 1 mile west of the California-Arizona border, officials said. The zone includes areas near backcountry border towns, such as Tecate and Jacumba Hot Springs.
The Department of the Interior ref...
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