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Honduran Delia Romero, 24, sits with her children in their sleeping area at a sheltered in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A caravan of about 1,600 Central American migrants camped Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, just west of Eagle ...

Honduran Delia Romero, 24, sits with her children in their sleeping area at a sheltered in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A caravan of about 1,600 Central American migrants camped Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, just west of Eagle ...

Response to the Trump Administration H-1B Reforms President Trump campaigned on a platform of prioritizing the interests of our nation and American citizens when it comes to national security, trade, immigration and jobs. For this American tech worker, it was thrilling to see President Trump, policy advisor Stephen Miller and Disney screwed-by-Iger tech workers at several ...

Normally, Eagle Pass, Texas, is a small and sleepy border city. Now, with a huge influx of law enforcement on one side of the border and an immigrant caravan on the other, it’s as far from sleepy as can be. As of Tuesday, the city park that sits along the river border was closed to the public. Beyond ...

The Department of Defense is moving 250 active duty military personnel to the Texas border in response to the arrival of Central American migrants near Eagle Pass. The troops are being moved from assignments in Arizona. Acting Department of Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan authorized the movement of active duty military personnel from border security assignments ...

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico — The Governor of Coahuila, the Mexican state where this border city is located, has one thing to say after overseeing the arrival of a caravan of nearly 2,000 migrants: “No Mas Caravanas,” or no more caravans. That was the headline in the local newspaper. “In the case of the state government, we ...

Top Democrats signaled on Tuesday that President Trump’s State of the Union address did little to convince them that a legislative compromise to construct his proposed border wall is possible, as another potential partial federal government shutdown over the White House’s long-promised project looms. In his remarks, Trump made no mention of an emergency declaration to fund the wall, ...

Health care officials in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras began a series of emergency protocols to deal with the increasing number of caravan migrants arriving on their journey to Texas. Doctors are administering vaccinations and caring for pregnant women from Honduras. As Breitbart News reported, more than 1,700 migrants arrived in Piedras Negras as ...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen said illegal entry into Texas by the most recent Central American migrant caravan “will not be tolerated.” The secretary also called on Congress to stop its “inexcusable failure to fully fund a needed physical barrier.” “Approximately 2,000 aliens have arrived in northern Mexico as part of a ...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen said illegal entry into Texas by the most recent Central American migrant caravan “will not be tolerated.” The secretary also called on Congress to stop its “inexcusable failure to fully fund a needed physical barrier.” “Approximately 2,000 aliens have arrived in northern Mexico as part of a ...

Customs and Border Protection announced just days ahead of President Trump’s State Union address that the number of family units entering the U.S. has increased 280 percent over the same time last year. Since this announcement, Congress’ duty to respond to the array of concerns grows keener by the day — as does our passive abdication ...

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico — Tensions began to rise before dawn as some 2,000 migrants being housed in a shelter in this border city woke up to a massive show of force gathering outside. Just beyond a chain-linked fence topped with barbed wire, hundreds of Mexican federal, state and local law enforcement officers – clad in riot gear ...

President Donald Trump promised Tuesday to keep a flood of migrants from the southern border by sending in more military forces. “We will build a Human Wall if necessary,” Trump wrote. “If we had a real Wall, this would be a non-event!” The Pentagon announced Sunday that they are sending 3,750 troops to help secure the border ...

Ahead of his State of the Union address Tuesday night,  President Trump warned that he would use the military to form “a Human Wall” if he can’t get funding for his proposed barrier along the U.S. southern border with Mexico. “Tremendous numbers of people are coming up through Mexico in the hopes of flooding our Southern ...

President Trump is set to renew his call for unity during Tuesday’s primetime State of the Union address, but prominent Democrats are already signaling they have no intention of reconciliation amid ongoing fights over border wall funding and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. Historian Douglas Brinkley called Trump’s upcoming address — his first before a Congress ...

Perhaps it was fitting that in the moments that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam first came under fire late last week for a yearbook photograph portraying two men in racially insensitive manners–one in blackface, the other donning Ku Klux Klan robes–former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro was the first 2020 Democrat hopeful to ...

SALTILLO, Mexico — More than 2,000 migrants boarded dozens of buses provided by the Mexican State of Coahuila en route to the border city of Piedras Negras, where a shelter with federal resources awaits them. The caravan will arrive at the border on Monday, a day ahead of President Trump’s State of the Union speech – ...

published 2019-02-03 16:04:48 by Soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard keep an eye out for signs of illegal activity along the U.S./Mexico border in the Sasabe District of Arizona Jan. 19. (Photo Credit: Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyde) ...

Soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard keep an eye out for signs of illegal activity along the U.S./Mexico border in the Sasabe District of Arizona Jan. 19. (Photo Credit: Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyde) The ...

The House Democrats’ proposed 2019 homeland security budget reopens the nation’s southern border to migrant inflows, while it also dangles the promise of cheap labor in front of GOP legislators and donors. The draft budget adds $1.75 billion in extra border spending to President Donald Trump’s $58.7 billion budget request for the Department of Homeland security ...

Connecticut, along with Texas, Indiana, Rhode Island and North Carolina, recently entered into agreements with Infosys, an Indian outsourcing company, wherein the states promised to give Infosys state grants or tax breaks in return for the company’s promise to create certain jobs. The agreements have been questioned by various American worker groups concerned that those ...

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) says President Trump has the legal authority to build significant portions of a border wall without additional congressional authorization or declaring a national emergency. That conclusion was reached in a report released by the nonpartisan federal agency on January 10. A Department of Defense official made a similar legal argument in ...

President Trump will deliver his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, but before we begin focusing on it, and the predictable, rote shellacking he’ll take from the usual suspects, let’s review the recent shutdown quagmire and set the record straight about what actually transpired, as it will be instructive going forward. On that note, it’s ...

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Institute of National Migration confirmed with Fox News that the temporary asylum visa fast-track program is suspended, and no more visas will be given for now. The Wall Street Journal first reported Tuesday that some 12,600 migrants, mostly from Honduras, applied for humanitarian visas since Jan. 16, and 4,000 have received them. MIGRANTS ...

Members of the U.S. military install multiple tiers of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande near the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, Nov. 16, 2018. (Associated Press) The Pentagon ...

Members of the U.S. military install multiple tiers of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande near the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, Nov. 16, 2018. (Associated Press) The Pentagon will send several thousand more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as the military prepares to expand efforts to improve security ...

Members of the U.S. military install multiple tiers of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande near the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, Nov. 16, 2018. (Associated Press) The Pentagon will send several thousand more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as the military prepares to expand efforts to improve security ...

The first thing that needs to be said about President Trump’s decision to sign a measure re-opening part of the federal government without getting money for the wall he demanded is that his experience as a New York businessman was no help. Perhaps he failed to recognize that Democrats are the party of government and ...

Numerous Democrats, both in the House and the Senate for the last two weeks, have been speaking to their Republican colleagues.  They have been asking them to broker this three-week opportunity to support the wall and negotiate other parts and other issues like DACA and Dreamers. They have been begging their Republican colleagues to make that ...

Numerous Democrats, both in the House and the Senate for the last two weeks, have been speaking to their Republican colleagues.  They have been asking them to broker this three-week opportunity to support the wall and negotiate other parts and other issues like DACA and Dreamers. They have been begging their Republican colleagues to make that deal ...