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The Roosevelt Reservation is a 60-foot (18 m) strip of land owned by the United States Federal Government on the United States side of the United States–Mexico Border in three of the four border states. Federal and tribal lands make up 632 miles (1,017 km), or approximately 33 percent, of the nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km) total. Private and state-owned lands constitute the remaining 67 percent of the border, most of which is located in Texas.In 1907, Theodore Roosevelt in a Presidential Proclamation (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 Texas annexation and admittance as a state, much of which has been sold over the years to private parties.In 2020 the Monument Hill area of the Roosevelt Reservation was subject to "controlled blasting" as part of the construction of the Trump wall. The area being destroyed includes Tohono O'odham Nation burial grounds and where the Tohono O’odham Nation have buried members of opposing tribes, including Apache warriors.