Republican Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson will introduce legislation later Tuesday to better authorize federal law enforcement to patrol vast swathes of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Securing Our Borders and Wilderness Act, obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller, would amend the Wilderness Act to allow U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to operate within the wilderness area covering southern California and Arizona. The wilderness area designation covers 1,171,768 acres across the southern border, according to the Congressional Research Service, including three areas totaling more than 1,123,000 acres in Arizona.