Border
Rep. John Katko: CBP Encounters in May 2021 Represent a 675% Increase Compared to a Year Ago
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol encountered over 180,000 migrants in May 2021, which represents a 675 percent increase compared to May 2020, Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) said Thursday at a House Homeland Security...
House Dems Block Bill Banning VP Harris from Traveling Internationally on Taxpayer Funds Until She Visits the Border
House Democrats blocked a bill called “See the Crisis Act” sponsored by Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), which would have blocked Vice President Kamala Harris from traveling internationally on the taxpayers’...
Rep. Joaquin Castro: Lara Trump Telling People to Arm Themselves Is ‘Putting a Target on People’s Backs’
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) blasted former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump for telling Americans along the southern border to arm themselves to deal with the onslaught of illegal...
Former Acting ICE Director: Biden’s Policies, Overturning Trump’s Policies Caused Crisis at the Border
Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan said Tuesday that the Biden administration is “so busy managing the optics” of the crisis at the border rather than dealing with the crisis itself.
VP Harris on Visiting the Border: ‘Yes, I Will, and I Have Before’
Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that she has visited the U.S.-Mexico border before she was vice president, and she will again.
Psaki: VP Harris Meant Administration Needs Time to Improve Asylum Processing
When Vice President Kamala Harris told migrants not to come to the U.S. border, she was saying that the administration needs more time to ensure that asylum processing is where it should be because it’s...
Psaki: ‘At Some Point,’ Vice President Kamala Harris ‘May Go the Border’
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris “may go to the border” at some point, although she has no plans right now.
Texas Attorney General: Biden Giving Economic Stimulus to Cartels Through Immigration Policy
Despite what DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress on Wednesday, the border is not closed, and there are almost triple the number of illegals coming across the border than there were a year ago,...
DHS Secretary Mayorkas: What’s Going on at the Border ‘Is Not an Invasion’
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday that what is happening at the border “is not an invasion” and that the Biden administration is improving the administrative process in a way not done...
Sen. John Kennedy Compares DHS Secretary Saying the Border Is Closed to Clinton Saying, ‘I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman’
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Monday that the Biden administration is lying about the border being closed despite video footage of scores of illegal immigrants sneaking into the United States, because...
Graham: ‘We’re Inviting a Terrorist Attack on Our Country on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 by Losing Control of the Border’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News’s “Hannity” that the Biden administration is “inviting a terrorist attack” on the United States on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by not controlling...
Texas Lt. Gov.: Biden Administration Concealing Real Situation at the Border
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick accused the Biden administration on Thursday of concealing all the information about the border from the public.
Gov. Greg Abbott: Texas Will Secure the Border, and the Biden Administration Will Pay for It’
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that he has deployed 1,000 Department of Public Safety troops and the National Guard to the southern border to secure it from illegal aliens coming across.
White House: Biden ‘Does Not Feel That Children Coming to Our Border … Is a Crisis’
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that President Joe Biden does not feel that migrant children seeking refuge from violence and economic hardships and coming across the U.S.-Mexico border...
Psaki on Northern Triangle Providing Border Security: I Never Conveyed There Was a Formal Agreement
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki denied Friday that there was ever “a formal declaration or a formal agreement” for Northern Triangle countries - Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras - to maintain...
McCarthy: U.S. on Track to Have 2 Million Migrants Cross Border by End of September
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Thursday that 2 million migrants are expected to cross the U.S. border by the end of September - twice the population of President Joe Biden’s home state.
Katko, Cuellar Introduce Bill Directing DHS to Develop Plan to Respond to Border Surge
Reps. John Katko (R-N.Y.) and Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) have introduced a bill that requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a plan to address the migrant surge at the border with...