By Diego Mendoza-Moyers, El Paso Matters Six weeks after the military took control of two swaths of land along the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico and West Texas, the boundaries of the so-called “national defense areas” remain unclear.   The move stemmed from a memo issued by President Donald Trump to allow the military to help halt the flow of migrants entering the United States even though the number of people crossing the southern border illegally began plummeting last year. 

However, it’s also unclear what consequences U.S. citizens who might accidentally trespass on the two national defense areas may face since they haven’t been publicly defined. The Defense Department established the Texas National Defense Area in El Paso and Hudspeth counties May 1, transferring land that had been

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