The Roosevelt Reservation is the -wide strip of land owned by the

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along the

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side of the

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in three of the four border states. Federal and tribal lands make up , or approximately 33 percent, of the nearly total. Private and state-owned lands constitute the remaining 67 percent of the border, most of which is located in Texas. In 1907,

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in a

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(35 Stat. 2136) established the reservation in order to keep all public lands along the border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico "free from obstruction as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and Mexico". Texas was excluded because Texas retained all public lands upon the

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and admittance as a state, much of which has been sold over the years to private parties. 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.

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