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

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? https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-border-military-assistance/ https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-border-military-assi... https://apnews.com/article/military-border-immigration-texas-mexico-d7d15f23bd755b95cd90cbb9a89df6fa https://apnews.com/article/military-border-immigration-texas...