‘They Want to Have a Police State’: Trump’s Rio Grande Military Zone

With Strykers and soldiers the Trump administration implemented its third National Defense Area in the Rio Grande Valley in June, alarming local groups.

Supplemental aircrew member Aaron Leblanc, with U.S. Air and Marine Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, reports his observations of the Rio Grande during a joint aerial patrol of the southern border near McAllen, Texas. (Caleb Woodburn/U.S. Army)

On his first day back in office, President Trump condemned what he called the “vast amount of peo…