President Donald Trump is reportedly evaluating plans to have the Department of Defense create a buffer zone along the U.S.-Mexico border that it will control, thus empowering the U.S. military to provide more assistance to border officials as they execute the greatest crackdown on the border in U.S. history.
Multiple U.S. officials told The Washington Post that plans have been under development for weeks and they involve in-part a section of border in New Mexico.
The report said that if the effort is successful that the buffer zone, which is only 20 yards deep, would be expanded west into California.
The plan would get around the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits active-duty troops from operating on U.S. soil to carry out most activities carried out by law enforcement, by turning that buffer zone into a U.S. military installation.
The report said:
As part of the effort, senior…
