Trump seized & gave the DoD hundreds of square miles, much in the form of narrow long strips. Theres now a pretense of calling these "military bases".
In some areas yes, now we have the US military manning much of the border. At extreme expense, & denying them from being posted someplace actually useful.
More critically, anyone who so much as walks across a 60 ft so called "base" is at risk of being prosecuted for very nasty crimes. Although a number of such charges have been dismissed, because it's pretty obviously just more meanspirited puffery.
I get why the states would no longer be building this huge absurd boondoggle. It was expensive as hell & ineffective as hell. And now the feds are pouring in vastly more money to militarize the border anyways so extra why bother?
In some areas yes, now we have the US military manning much of the border. At extreme expense, & denying them from being posted someplace actually useful.
More critically, anyone who so much as walks across a 60 ft so called "base" is at risk of being prosecuted for very nasty crimes. Although a number of such charges have been dismissed, because it's pretty obviously just more meanspirited puffery.
I get why the states would no longer be building this huge absurd boondoggle. It was expensive as hell & ineffective as hell. And now the feds are pouring in vastly more money to militarize the border anyways so extra why bother?
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