“Build the Wall,” those were the energized words from Donald Trump’s campaign back in 2016. Countless times during the campaign, then candidate Trump promised to build a “great and beautiful” wall in response to the “crisis on our southern border.” The wall would span the border’s entire 2,000-mile length. Five days after President Donald Trump […]Read More
The number of migrant families crossing the border illegally has been falling in recent weeks, according to preliminary figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, though U.S. officials say it is too soon to get a full picture of the impact on migration trends from President Donald Trump’s deal with Mexico. U.S. authorities detained more […]Read More
The Pentagon is preparing to approve a loosening of rules that bar troops from interacting with migrants entering the United States, expanding the military’s involvement in President Trump’s operation along the southern border. Senior Defense Department officials have recommended that acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan approve a new request from the Department of Homeland Security to provide […]Read More
WASHINGTON – Thursday on the floor of the Senate, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed his vote against the Democrats’ attempt to block the President from securing the border and called on Congress to reform the National Emergencies Act. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s floor remarks are below, and video can be found above. “As I’ve […]Read More
Keep calm and come on over. That’s the holiday message city and business officials here are sending to their neighbors directly across the Texas-Mexico border. Given that local Customs and Border Protection Agents have been redeployed to California and Arizona ahead of the anticipated arrival of a caravan of Central American migrants to those border […]Read More
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Co. – The Department of Homeland Security has requested the Department of Defense to provide a range of assistance, including planning, engineering, transportation, logistics and medical support to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. According to officials, this request for assistance will “enhance CBP’s ability to impede or deny illegal crossings […]Read More
At least 5,200 military troops will be deployed to the U.S. border with Mexico by the end of the week, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense officials confirmed Monday afternoon. The troops are in addition to the 2,000 National Guard members who have been in place since April. They are being sent in […]Read More
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Tuesday that the election of a “far-left socialist” to the Mexican presidency underscores the need for President Donald Trump’s administration to secure the border and build a wall between the United States and its southern neighbor. Cruz said Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 64, had been running on an “anti-American […]Read More
In the small South Texas town of Crystal City, little remains of the massive internment camp that was used to incarcerate thousands of people of Japanese and German ancestry in the 1940s. But the memories of that imprisonment — and the enduring trauma that came with it — have stalked Hiroshi Shimizu since the day […]Read More
SANTA TERESA, N.M. — A groundbreaking Monday for a new border barrier in New Mexico signals the beginning of the fulfillment of President Donald Trump’s best-known campaign promise, federal officials said. “The president has started his project,” Agent Aaron A. Hull, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol’s El Paso sector, said as he stood a few feet from the existing fence that […]Read More
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