May 3, 2019 Texas Rep. Hurd heads to NH, sparking 2024 speculation For Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, considered an up-and-comer in the GOP, parachuting into to the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state of New Hampshire sparks some speculation that the former CIA officer may have national designs in 2024.
May 2, 2019 Retired ICE director suggests operational plan for border crisis: Stop relying on Congress President Donald Trump asked Congress on Wednesday to provide $4.5 billion in emergency spending to fund increased measures in response to the “humanitarian and security crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border, a request sure to generate pushback from Democrats who refused to grant $8.6 billion of funding earlier this year for a border wall, resulting in a 35-day government shutdown.
April 30, 2019 Mexico weighs retaliatory tariff against U.S. over border slowdowns Mexico is considering a retaliatory tariff against the United States over delays at the border that it is blaming on the reassignment of agents from customs inspections to dealing with the dramatic rise in migrants seeking political asylum.
April 26, 2019 5 Republican US Reps: Secure the border NOW Congress must act immediately to secure our border and end the crisis of illegal immigration.
April 25, 2019 Nearly 100,000 illegal immigrants graduate high schools annually without DACA protection, study finds As Congress and the White House have struggled to reach a deal on immigration reform, a D.C. think tank released a study Wednesday estimating that about 33,000 more illegal immigrants than previously thought were graduating from U.S. high schools every year.
April 24, 2019 Long-time New York Times' liberal columnist argues for Trump's border wall: 'The solution is a high wall' President Trump has an unlikely new ally -- one of the New York Times’ most liberal and well-known voices.
April 24, 2019 James Jay Carafano: Trump needs to convince Americans he can solve our immigration mess – Here's how President Trump’s challenge is to convince the American people that he is the one who takes their concerns seriously.
April 22, 2019 Trump tells child at Easter Egg Roll the wall is ‘being built now’ President Trump assured a child at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday that his long-promised wall is being built on the U.S.-Mexico border.
April 19, 2019 New Mexico militia detains migrants at gunpoint until Border Patrol arrives: report An armed right-wing militia group operating along the U.S.-Mexico border posted several videos to social media this week, including one in which they held about 200 asylum-seeking migrants at gunpoint near Sunland Park, NM until U.S. Border Patrol agents arrived, according to a report.
April 19, 2019 Vice President Mike Pence: Congress must act to end the crisis on our border This week, Mayor Douglas Nicholls of Yuma, Arizona, declared a state of emergency as thousands of illegal immigrants poured into the city and pushed it to its breaking point. As the mayor warned, the sudden influx of people is “above our capacity as a community to sustain.”