US charges migrants over entering military ‘buffer zone’ on Mexico border

<p>At least 28 people charged in federal court as civil liberties groups condemn ‘enhanced militarization’ of border lands</p><p>The US Department of Justice has begun the first criminal prosecutions of migrants for entering a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/military-mission-for-sealing-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states-and-repelling-invasions/">newly declared</a> military buffer zone created along the border with Mexico, according to court filings, Reuters reports.</p><p>At least 28 migrants were charged were charged in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Monday for crossing into the 170-mile-long, 60ft-wide militarized buffer zone patrolled by active-duty US troops.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/migrants-charged-us-mexico-border">Continue reading...</a>