Talk:National Defense Area

Feedback from New Page Review process

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: InfoBox at upper right needs more detail/tags. It is confusing now because it is so bare.

Noleander (talk) 21:35, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

ERROR in Designated sites => Fort Huachuca, Texas

Fort Huachuca, Texas is in Arizona, not Texas. LOOK AT YOUR LINK.

2603:8080:8F00:4938:3D6A:3A19:EF3F:E33A (talk) 00:51, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Merge proposal

I propose merging the National Defense Area article into the Immigration detention in the second Trump administration article. Per the content in the article, the NDA designation did not exist before the second Trump administration, appears to have been created under a national security presidential memorandum issued by the administration, and designated facilities are used for immigration detention. Along with the overlapping scope, merging the articles would be consistent with the article size guideline or undue weight under the neutral point of view policy since the National Defense Area article is only 387 words and the Immigration detention in the second Trump administration article is 6,186 words (and a section in the latter article is being proposed for splitting into a separate new article). -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 19:45, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Oppose - Do we have a source that the NDAs are used for immigration detention? (not that Immigration detention in the second Trump administration is only about detention) The NDAs also seem to be part of the administration's effort to use the military domestically. This should be expanded but not necessarily be merged solely on word count. Seamlessly (talk) 08:00, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

The very first sentence, that has eight references and occupies the entire lead section, says "National Defense Areas (NDAs) are military installations designated by the second Trump administration at the Mexico–United States border which are operated by the US Department of Defense, where troops can search and detain." -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 15:45, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

I also oppose as I have recently been reminded that another article I contribute to is getting "too long." I think this topic is too important to let it be lumped in with another long article that might be pruned back due to its long content. This article is well sourced and as has been shown in the article the NDAs are growing over time. This is not likely to change. These sites will continue to gain notability and size. TexasBob85 (talk) 03:12, 16 March 2026 (UTC)