border security

Nearly half of the adults in the United States claim substance abuse has caused problems within their families, according to a Gallup poll.

Gunmen attacked a National Geographic journalist during an interview with a drug dealer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. After the shooting, authorities escorted the journalist and his team from the drug den to an international bridge where U.S. consular officials helped them cross the border into El Paso, Texas.

The number of migrants coming from El Salvador to the United States is dropping, thanks to an agreement that the Trump administration brokered.

Border wall construction crews in Arizona are seen migrating Organ Pipe and other protected cacti in a video released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A 30-foot bollard wall is replacing a five-mile segment of the border that is now separated only by a vehicle barrier.

Chef, a company that helps companies manage their technical infrastructure, has cut ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after one of its employees sabotaged the company’s systems in protest of its government contract. The employee deleted computer code from the company’s systems, impacting its ability to support its customers.

Increased immigration and security efforts by the Mexican government resulted in a decrease in illegal crossings in the United States, allowing El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents to return to capturing smugglers and previously deported criminal aliens.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has labelled the European Union’s border agency Frontex a “travel agency”, stating that Member States should protect the external borders.

Trump ridiculed the Democrat National Committee on Monday, mockingly asking them to reduce security for their 2020 political convention.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder spoke out defending the Obama administration from critics on the far-left about its deportation efforts while warning 2020 presidential candidates that the U.S. needs borders.

The Trump administration is diverting funds from several federal entities to address the ongoing migrant crisis on the U.S. southern border.

Breitbart News’ Ildefonso Ortiz explains how much more dangerous Mexico has become compared to decades ago, revealing that several people close to him have been kidnapped and, in some cases, murdered by organized criminals in Mexico.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials awarded an $80 million contract last week for the construction of 11 miles of new border wall. The project, scheduled to start in September 2019, will build new barriers and security roads in the Rio Grande Valley Sector where none exists today.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) said at the Democrat debate “kids belong in classrooms not cages,” even though the feds provide education services.

The Vox website named candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren and the Republican Party as winners of the Democrat debate and CNN and Beto as losers.

Border Patrol officials are re-opening many of the inland border security checkpoints following decreases in migrant crossings in June and July. The reductions also allow Border Patrol agents to return to other security missions.

The Baltimore Sun has documented the vermin problem in the city run by Democrats but called President Trump a rat for tweeting about it.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused the Supreme Court of allowing the Trump administration to “steal military funds to spend on a wasteful, ineffective border wall” in reaction to Friday’s ruling, which allows the administration to transfer defense funds to begin the construction of the border wall.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg appeared to draw larger crowds in New Hampshire on Friday than Democrat frontrunner former Vice President Joe Biden.

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to commit a gaffe on Friday, telling immigration activists, “We need family separation.”

The U.S. government said it has committed to providing $500 million to create jobs and promote development in Southern Mexico.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) told a woman whose toddler died in a hospital weeks after being released from a border facility where they were held for 20 days that she had done “nothing wrong” and that the Trump administration has “criminalized families” during a House hearing on Wednesday.

The House Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is holding a hearing entitled “Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the Border” Wednesday afternoon.

Appearing Wednesday on BET Digital’s “#BlackCoffeeLive,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) admitted that the Trump administration is implementing Obama-era policies at the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Open border activists and the leftist media are politicizing the death of a El Salvadoran man and his young daughter, including at a vigil in Brownville, Texas, last weekend where activists spoke out against the detention of migrants who cross the U.S. border illegally or turn themselves in to seek asylum and the separation of families that law requires.

Democrats blame President Donald Trump for migrants suffering on the border and want to allow 100,000 refugees a year from Central America.

The chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed the first openly LGBT Native American woman elected to the Congress is enabling a “racist system” by not supporting a radical immigration bill. 

Texas Bishop Mark J. Seitz accompanied migrants from Central America across the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday to protest conditions of migrant holding facilities. “Standing here at the U.S.-Mexico border, how do we begin to diagnose the soul of our country?” Seitz

The chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) likened moderate Democrats to “Jim Crow supporters.”

Border Patrol agents noted a 30 percent average reduction in arrests of migrants along the southwest border within two weeks of implementation of the U.S.-Mexico “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers, said Brandon Judd.

Online search interest in former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro’s presidential candidacy spiked by more than 2,400 percent amid the first Democrat primary debate.