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March 6, 2019

New York Post: Yeah, this looks like a border crisis

More than 76,000 migrants crossed the southern border illegally last month, the highest number in 12 years. So much for all those media “fact checks” arguing that there’s no emergency to justify President Trump’s wall.

March 3, 2019

Sen. Rand Paul: I support President Trump, but I can't support this National Emergency Declaration

I support President Trump. However, I cannot support the use of emergency powers to get more funding for the wall, so I will be voting to disapprove of his declaration when it comes before the Senate.

March 1, 2019

Sen. Rick Scott: Secure borders or process – Democrats, Congress need to decide what really matters

I went down to the border a few weeks ago. I’d listened to the career politicians in Washington argue about immigration and border security and the humanitarian crisis for weeks and weeks and it was all a bunch of hot air.

February 27, 2019

CBP’s Rio Grande Valley sector on pace for 50 percent jump in illegal alien apprehensions

Border Patrol agents in Southeast Texas have apprehended more than 100,000 immigrants attempting to enter the United States illegally since the beginning of October, officials said Wednesday.

February 26, 2019

Crowd of 4 holds pro-Trump, pro-wall 'rally' in San Francisco

A pro-Trump, pro-wall rally – for the immigrants – in the heart of San Francisco Monday yielded a crowd that averaged four people, according to a report.

February 25, 2019

New York, California, 14 other states sue Trump in 9th Circuit over emergency declaration

The attorneys general of California, New York, and 14 other states on Monday filed a lawsuit in the Ninth Circuit against the White House's recent national emergency declaration over border security, claiming President Trump has "veered the country toward a constitutional crisis of his own making."

February 23, 2019

Pentagon officials tour border wall to determine stability of area

Top defense officials toured sections of the U.S.-Mexico border Saturday to analyze if reinforcement efforts are needed to block drug smuggling and other illegal activity, as the Pentagon weighs diverting billions of dollars for President Donald Trump's border wall.

February 22, 2019

Trump’s border emergency edict challenged by House Dems, setting up possible veto showdown

House Democrats moved Friday to neutralize President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border, introducing a resolution to block the edict – and setting up a fight that could lead to the president’s first veto.

February 22, 2019

Honduran woman detained at border says she was held for ransom by human smugglers: report

A Honduran woman detained while crossing into the United States illegally told federal agents in Texas that she had escaped human smugglers in Mexico who kidnapped her and held her for ransom.

February 21, 2019

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump's brazen, unconstitutional overreach

Last week, President Donald Trump followed through on a threat he had been making for months. It was not a blistering or insulting tweet. It was not an attack on the press or congressional Democrats. It was an attack on the Constitution.