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{{Short description|Land owned by the US government along the US–Mexico Border}}
The '''Roosevelt Reservation''' is a sixty-[[foot]] strip of land on the [[United States]] side of the [[United States-Mexico Border]] under the jurisdiction of the [[United States Federal Government]]. It was established in a 1907 [[Presidential Proclamation]] (35 Stat. 2136) by [[Theodore Roosevelt]] in order to keep the land "free from obstruction as a protection against the [[smuggling]] of goods between the United States and Mexico".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/arizona/Documents/Biol_Opin/080011_LukevillePrimaryFence.pdf|title=Biological Opinion for the Proposed Installation of 5.2 Miles of Primary Fence near Lukeville, Arizona|last=Spangle|first=Steven L.|date=2008-02-11|publisher=[[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]]|pages=p.3|accessdate=2008-10-11|format=[[PDF]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RL33659.pdf|title=Border Security: Barriers Along the U.S. International Border|last=Nuñez-Neto|first=Blas|coauthors=Kim, Yule|date=2008-05-14|publisher=Federation of American Scientists|pages=p. 24|accessdate=2008-10-11|format=[[PDF]]}}</ref>▼
The '''Roosevelt Reservation''' is the {{convert|60|ft|m|adj=on}}-wide strip of land owned by the [[United States Federal Government]] along the [[United States]] side of the [[United States–Mexico Border]] in three of the four border states. Federal and tribal lands make up {{convert|632|miles}}, or approximately 33 percent, of the nearly {{convert|2,000|miles}} total. Private and state-owned lands constitute the remaining 67 percent of the border, most of which is located in Texas.<ref>{{citation |publisher= [[GAO]] |title= Southwest Border: Issues Related to Private Property Damage (GAO-15-399) |url= https://www.gao.gov/assets/670/669936.pdf |pages= 5–6 |date= April 2015}}</ref>
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Construction of the [[Trump wall]] along the border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico was expedited since the reservation reduced the need to acquire additional private property.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Burnett|first=John|date=December 11, 2020|title=Contractors Dynamite Mountains, Bulldoze Desert In Race To Build Trump's Border Wall|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/12/11/945194147/contractors-dynamite-mountains-bulldoze-desert-in-race-to-build-trumps-border-wa|access-date=2020-12-12|work=NPR News|language=en}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Border War (1910–1919)]]
* [[List of Mexico–United States border crossings]]
{{wikisource|Proclamation 758|Presidential Proclamation of May 27, 1907}}
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