Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) – A lawsuit has been filed in NM against the federal government the close to to the public of hundreds of acres on the U.S- Mexico border in New Mexico, into a restricted military zone.
That designation includes affects about 200 acres of land in Doña Ana, Luna, and Hidalgo counties. The lawsuit was filed in federal court here in Albuquerque on Thursday. Among the plaintiffs is the New Mexico Wildlife Federation, wants a judge to declare the designation of the state’s border area as a “national defense area” as unlawful.
The Trump administration established the zone in 2025, and since then, the federal Department of Justice has charged close to 18-hundred people with crimes related to being inside the zone.
