Border agents arrested 62 Central American migrants for breaching the border fence near Border Field State Park in Imperial Beach, California, over two days last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials announced Friday.
Democrats are drafting a plan that would enhance border security with a one-time $5 billion boost in spending — but still not provide a penny for a durable border fence that would curb the smuggling of labor or drugs, states a report in Politico.
The lack of taxpayer payments to Central American economic migrants is the crisis on the border, says California Democrat Scott Peters, who presented the party’s weekend message.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reviving the establishment’s “virtual wall” policy on the southern border to soften her uncompromising opposition to President Donald Trump’s push for a real fence on the border.
Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama successfully wasted $1 billion building an ineffective “virtual wall” of border sensors in place of a border fence.
As long as he holds firm on the policy priorities most important to his base — especially border security — Trump will have flexibility to negotiate on other issues.
Many House and Senate Democrats voted to fund the same bollard-style fencing constructed by Presidents Bush and Obama that they now oppose under President Trump.
Initial tests of President Donald Trump’s border wall prototypes show the structures fail to meet the “non penetrable” criteria, according to a government report. Study crews were able to breach a wall and in at least one case, make a prototype unstable.
United States Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) reportedly joined hundreds of protesters along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California, on Friday to demonstrate against President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, which she said amounted to “human rights abuse.”
TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Sunday warned that the homefront by the border with Syria and Lebanon in Israel’s north was not adequately prepared for a potential war.
TEL AVIV – Israeli Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi on Sunday warned of a possible “explosion” by the Palestinians ahead of Israel’s 70th Independence Day.
EILAT, Israel – Israel is regarding as global leader in the fight against Islamic terrorism. Lesser known is that the Jewish state has over the years contended with a major issue of regional migrants entering the country illegally and that the Jewish state has successfully halted the infiltration of illegal migrants to the point where not a single illegal entered in 2017, according to Israeli government statistics.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s southern barrier proves 100 percent effective in preventing infiltration with a new report issued Sunday by the country’s Population and Immigration Authority showing that not a single person managed to get in the country illegally in the past 12 months.
TEL AVIV – An Israeli firm was chosen as one of four companies to build a prototype for President Donald Trump’s long-touted wall separating the U.S. and Mexico.
Democrats are threatening to shutter many government agencies on October 1 unless President Donald Trump gives up his popular campaign promise to build the border wall against Mexico, according to Politico.
TEL AVIV – Hezbollah may launch an attack against Israel before or during the construction of a new border fence next month, the former director of the Counter Terrorism Bureau at the Prime Minister’s Office said on Monday.
President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget plan asks Congress for enough money to build just 60 miles of border wall.
President Donald Trump will ask Congress next Tuesday to appropriate $2.6 billion for improved border infrastructure in 2018, including funds for the construction of new border walls, according to details provided to the New York Times.
President Donald Trump’s immediate 2017 budget request will fund the first 62 miles of border walls and fences, pending the appropriation of more funds in late 2017 for additional construction in 2018, says a report from CNN.
Mexican cartel smugglers used a makeshift catapult to launch drug bundles over the border fence near Douglas, Arizona.
The Israeli military said an Israeli soldier was wounded on Wednesday by shots fired from a vehicle traveling in Lebanon along a border fence, and troops returned fire.
A new fence, electronic surveillance equipment and a paved road for police “border hunters” are all part of Hungary’s continuing efforts to stop the flow of migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Asia and Africa at its southern borders.
A Palestinian man who sneaked into Israel from the Gaza Strip evaded capture for nearly 24 hours before he was picked up by security forces on Wednesday morning, the army said.
The Texas lawmaker has introduced legislation to ensure that Customs and Border Patrol stations along the U.S.-Mexico border are fully staffed and the perimeter reinforced. His bill is called the Protect our Southwestern States Enforcement (POSSE) Act.
The grounds keeper at the Old Hidalgo Pumphouse, a museum located at the border, tells News 5 KRGV he often sees illegal immigrants crossing the border into the U.S. and finds what they leave behind.
(REUTERS) – The controversial fence on Hungary’s southern border with the Balkans may well have helped slow down the flow of migrants into northern Europe from the record highs reached last year. But a visit to a newly-opened camp on
A large deployment of security forces sent out to the mountain region near this border city to hunt cartel smugglers resulted in the seizure of more than 1700 pound of Marijuana.
A crew of Mexican reporters who were recording a segment on the border fence in the city of Nogales Arizona, ended up stumbling into two cartel smugglers who managed to sneak into the country undetected. Carolina Rocha a reporter for
The head of the National Border Patrol Council says a breach in the fence along a ten-mile area in remote areas of the Mexico-Arizona border should cause concern about terrorist threats.
The feud between Donald Trump and Pope Francis has many political and cultural dimensions. It’s the part where Pope Francis weighed in on Christian faith and immigration policy, which virtually every major media organization characterized as “Pope Francis says Donald Trump is not Christian,” or “Pope Francis says Trump’s plan for a border wall is not Christian.”
