Texas judge dismisses 'trespassing' charges against border crossers accused of violating military rules

U.S. Magistrate Miguel Torres ruled that the government hadn’t established probable cause that people crossing the border without legal authorization were willfully violating a defense property security regulation when doing so on a narrow 63-mile strip of land along the Rio Grande in El Paso and Hudspeth counties. Thursday was the first time an El Paso judge held a hearing on military trespassing charges since the Trump administration established the national defense area May 1.

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/051525_el_paso_dod_border/texas-judge-dismisses-trespassing-charges-against-border-crossers-accused-violating-military-rules/