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Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector in California arrested an MS-13 member who claimed he traveled through Mexico with a migrant caravan. The agents made the arrest after he illegally crossed the border from Mexico into California. El Centro Station agents patrolling east of the Calexico Port of Entry came upon a suspected ...

President Trump says he’s willing to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t send him a bill over the next 10 days approving $5 billion for his long-promised wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Congress must pass a spending package before Dec. 8, or the government will shut down. The flashpoint for a possible shuttering is Trump’s ...

A group of Central American migrants camped at the U.S.-Mexico border said Tuesday that they were “victims of repression” by American border agents who launched tear gas over the weekend at a crowd that included angry rock-throwers and crying children. “We were only walking so that we could be visible, so that ...

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews conceded on Monday evening that most of the Central American migrants in the caravan are not eligible for asylum because they are economic migrants. The Hardball host said “there’s two-thirds of a billion people” living in a lot of poverty “all the way down to Tierra del Fuego,” and agreed with GOP strategist ...

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews conceded on Monday evening that most of the Central American migrants in the caravan are not eligible for asylum because they are economic migrants. The Hardball host said “there’s two-thirds of a billion people” living in a lot of poverty “all the way down to Tierra del Fuego,” and agreed with GOP strategist ...

New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on the attack against Sebastian Gorka in a Twitter tirade in which, in a roundabout way, she called the former adviser to President Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi.” The Twitter broadsides started when Gorka called Ocasio-Cortez “disgraceful” for comparing the U.S. to Nazi Germany. On Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted the claim that “Asking ...

New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on the attack against Sebastian Gorka in a Twitter tirade in which, in a roundabout way, she called the former adviser to President Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi.” The Twitter broadsides started when Gorka called Ocasio-Cortez “disgraceful” for comparing the U.S. to Nazi Germany. On Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted the claim that “Asking ...

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says in the midst of a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 Central American migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Republican-controlled Congress should immediately fund a border wall and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must enlist police to aid U.S. Border Patrol. During an interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart ...

Seven in ten Mexicans reportedly have a negative view of Central American migrants in the caravan while majorities oppose giving migrants work visas and support tougher enforcement measures, according to a comprehensive poll conducted by one of Mexico’s biggest newspapers, El Universal. NBC News on Monday evening reported the results of Sunday’s El Universal survey that ...

It’s Monday. We just had a vacation, so we’re trying to think a little more broadly about what’s happening in this world. Here’s what we came up with. If you had to boil down the Democratic Party’s long-term goals to the most important goals, the first would be this, and it’s obvious, the federal  government ought to ...

Kurtz: Migrant threat can be both politicized and real ‘MediaBuzz’ host Howard Kurtz weighs in on the violent clash in Tijuana as hundreds of migrants tried to evade Mexican police and ran toward a border crossing that leads to San Diego, forcing officials to shut down the border for hours and fire tear gas to push ...

TIJUANA, Mexico – Many among the more than 5,000 Central American migrants in Tijuana were urgently exploring their options amid a growing feeling that they had little hope of making successful asylum bids in the United States or of crossing the border illegally. Most were dispirited on Monday, a day after U.S. agents fired tear gas ...

At a Monday night roundtable in Mississippi on his bipartisan criminal justice reform effort, President Trump charged that some migrants he identified as “grabbers” who rushed the San Ysidro, Calif., point of entry on Sunday essentially used children as human shields at the border. “We’ve had some very violent people, and we don’t want, frankly, those people ...

Alan Suazo-Gomez, 31, of Honduras, was arrested Friday after allegedly lighting a tree on fire and throwing rocks toward Customs and Border Protection agents. (Customs and Border Protection) A self-proclaimed member of the Central American migrant caravan ...

Juan Antonio Hernandez Alvarado (Facebook: Tony Hernandez Diputado) A brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was charged by federal prosecutors Monday with conspiring to import tons of cocaine to the United States, as well as weapons offenses ...

Monday on MSNBC, host Andrea Mitchell said President Donald Trump was “demonizing” migrants by calling them “a caravan” with “500 murderers in the midst.” Partial transcript as follows: PHILIP RUCKER: Yeah, it’s a horrible humanitarian crisis and it has been from the beginning of the family separation policy. And you have parts of the government right now ...

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) claimed during an interview with CNN New Day on Monday that the Trump administration’s immigration policies are to blame for caravan migrants storming the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego Sunday. A partial transcript is as follows:  JOHN BERMAN: I want to show you if I can or talk about ...

Speaking Monday on “Fox & Friends,” Carla Provost, the chief of United States Border Patrol, defended her agency’s use of tear gas on illegal aliens at the border over the weekend. Provost shot down the idea that Border Patrol agents used the tear gas on the migrants solely because they were trying to enter the ...

The Mexican government will deport up to 500 caravan migrants back to Central America after they tried to cross the U.S. border on Sunday, according to Reuters news service. The news service reported the government’s response to the rush by caravan migrants for the fence at the San Ysidro port of entry: MEXICO CITY, Nov 25 (Reuters) – ...

Pro-migration activist groups bitterly denounced the U.S. government’s decision to use tear gas to break up a crowd of migrants who were trying to break through a border fence to get into the United States. Civil rights lawyer Christian Cowart compared the standoff to the Nazis’ mass murder of Jews: The US has closed the port of entry ...

President Donald Trump urged Mexico on Monday to send the growing flow of migrants from South America back to their countries of origin. “Mexico should move the flag-waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it any way ...

President Trump offered Mexico some advice on deporting migrants massed in Tijuana and threatening to storm the U.S., telling the neighboring nation in a tweet to send them “back to their countries” by plane or by bus – or face a permanent closure of the border. Trump’s tweet followed a vow from Mexico to deport migrants ...

TIJUANA, Mexico – Mexico pledged to shore up security near its border with the United States and local authorities said that 39 migrants were arrested after a peaceful march devolved into chaos when U.S. agents fired tear gas into Mexico to stop some migrants who tried to breach the border. Mexico’s Interior Ministry said Sunday it ...

Thousands of additional migrants are expected to arrive Tijuana, Mexico, expecting to claim asylum at the U.S border. The migrants expected to arrive are in addition to the approximately 5,000 migrants who already arrived in this border city during recent days. Jean Guerrero from KPBS first reported on the expected migrant arrivals after she spoke to ...

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Director of San Diego Field Operations Pete Flores stated that while the agency is prepared for the worst, they expect members of the migrant caravan “to follow the orderly process of applying for asylum” in the United States. Flores said, “As we ...

Migrants cross a riverbed at the Mexico-U.S. border after getting past a line of police at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, as they try to reach the U.S. The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his ...

Migrants break past a line of police as they run toward the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, near the San Ysidro entry point into the U.S. More than 5,000 migrants are camped in and around a sports complex in Tijuana ...

A previously deported illegal alien climbed a tree to avoid being arrested by Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents. He then set the tree on fire and threw rocks at the agents and a helicopter. Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents observed footprints leading from the international boundary just east of Andrade, California, port of entry. The tracks ...

Report: US-Mexico reach deal on asylum overhaul The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration has cut a deal with the incoming Mexican government potentially overhauling long-standing asylum rules; Bryan Llenas reports from West Palm Beach, Florida. Mexico’s incoming government denied reports Saturday that it had struck a deal with the White House to keep asylum-seekers in the country while ...

A migrant woman attempting to cross the nation’s southern border with Mexico by climbing a portion of fencing was impaled this weekend after falling and landing on a piece of rebar, officials said. The 26-year-old Guatemalan mother of two attempted to enter the U.S, near the San Ysidro Port of Entry Friday night. According to The San Diego Union-Tribune, the ...