By Cindy Ramirez, El Paso Matters A federal magistrate in El Paso this week acquitted a Peruvian migrant on charges of criminal trespassing on the Texas National Defense Area in May – the first such case to reach trial in the region — testing the Trump administration’s recently established military zones along the southern border. Federal Magistrate Judge Laura Enriquez on Wednesday approved a motion for acquittal by defense attorneys for Adely Vanessa De La Cruz-Alvarez, agreeing that the evidence presented in trial was insufficient to sustain a conviction. In question was whether there had been a “willful” violation of defense property security regulations and whether the government had placed adequate signage warning people about the military zone.

“The government can’t place Ms. De La

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