border security

U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Gregory Wormuth of Las Cruces dismissed misdemeanor trespassing charges against nearly 100 illegal aliens arrested for crossing into a newly designated National Defense Area in New Mexico. On Wednesday, the federal judge ruled in favor of the illegal aliens, citing probable cause issues as the reason for the dismissals.

Rodney Scott testifies before the Senate Finance Committee in a confirmation hearing to become Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol on Wednesday, April 30.

A new video from the Center for Immigration Studies shows a newly bulldozed roadway for Border Patrol agents to access an unsecured mountainous region of the U.S.-Mexico border more quickly.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) said Democrats “have to do a better job of saying what we stand for. We have to rebuild the middle class in our country, we need

Democrat Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) this week blocked a border reform bill introduced by freshman Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), despite his plea to Democrats to unite on something so common sense.

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) cast the only no vote on a bill requiring an annual report to Congress on cross-border cartel smuggling tunnels. The bill, H.R. 495, passed the House Monday on a vote of 402-1.

President Donald Trump touted his record-low number of illegal border crossings since reentering office, arguing that the U.S. needed a “new president,” not “new legislation,” to secure the country.

Vice President JD Vance and several other administration officials will tour the Texas border city of Eagle Pass on Wednesday. The trip follows Tuesday night’s historic speech to a joint session of Congress, during which President Donald Trump proudly celebrated his administration’s success in reducing migrant encounters at the southern border by 94 percent.

Under orders from the Trump administration, the Pentagon is deploying 3,000 more troops and armored Stryker vehicles to the U.S. border with Mexico.  The orders expand current operations and to “seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States,” officials said.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) reintroduced legislation to allow the Department of Homeland Security to expedite the processing and removal of migrants illegally entering the country in response to the fentanyl-related public health emergency, Breitbart News learned exclusively Wednesday.

President Donald Trump has called for Congress to produce “One Big Beautiful Bill” and pass his legislative agenda.

El gobierno de México ha estado exagerando las incautaciones menores y las detenciones de los cárteles como parte de una estrategia de relaciones públicas en un intento de apaciguar a la administración Trump, que ha destacado su inacción contra los cárteles y la corrupción y los ha amenazado con aranceles y otras medidas punitivas.

The House Budget Committee approved a budget resolution Thursday night, a necessary step towards enacting President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda through the budget reconciliation process.

Non-Government Migrant Shelters (NGOs) are feeling the impact as illegal entries continue to dwindle across the southwest border after President Trump’s swift actions to control the border and carry out mass deportations. Non-profit organizations that received hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government under the Biden Administration began to close their doors.

China’s public response to the deportation fight between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Petro Gustavo seemed oddly muted early this week, but that might have been because Beijing already had a man in Bogota working the political angle.

David Eby, premier of British Columbia, suggested last week that Canadians might stop buying American alcohol if President Donald Trump follows through with his tariff threat against Canada.

“United in service and in strength,” is the message from the El Paso Sector chief as his agents team up with Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and the Department of Defense to increase security along the border.

A contingent of U.S. Marines landed in the San Diego Sector to assist Border Patrol agents. The Department of Defense ordered the Marine deployment in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order, signed on Monday.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement holds a hearing on “Restoring Immigration Enforcement in America”  on Wednesday, January 22.

President Donald Trump will declare a national emergency at the southern border, he announced Monday during his inaugural address.

The Senate Friday teed up the Laken Riley Act to become the first significant border and immigration legislation to pass Congress in decades.

The Vatican City State has enacted stiffer penalties on anyone entering its territory or violating its airspace without permission, threatening offenders with fines and jail time.

Armenia on Tuesday signed a strategic partnership agreement with the United States, continuing its effort to move away from Russia following Azerbaijan’s conquest and ethnic cleansing of the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Canadian Liberals are scrambling to fill the power vacuum left by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation, using a great deal of tough talk intended to convince voters that the party can stand up to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in a potential tariff and border security conflict.

The Laken Riley Act took another step to becoming law Monday evening after clearing another hurdle in the Senate. Senators voted 82-10 on a motion to proceed to consideration of the bill, allowing the chamber to begin debating the bill

Thirty-three Senate Democrats voted with Republicans Thursday to clear a key procedural hurdle on the Laken Riley Act.

Rep. Chip Roy is reintroducing legislation wielded by Republicans in the 2024 election cycle to highlight the Biden-Harris administration’s border security failures.

Senate Republicans are ready to begin delivering on President-elect Donald Trump’s historic mandate, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Wednesday in outlining the Senate’s path ahead.

The Canadian government pledged to crack down on student visa abuse after Indian officials complained about a “well-planned conspiracy” that used Canadian student visas to smuggle Indian nationals into the United States.

President Joe Biden toured the National Museum of Slavery in Angola’s capital of Luanda on Tuesday, delivering a speech in which he described slavery as America’s “original sin” and claiming it still taints American public discourse.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gave the most revealing interview of his career recently, providing a fascinating look inside the mind of the anti-borders ideologue running the agency charged with protecting America’s borders.

The National Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s oldest and largest police labor organization, announced Friday that it was endorsing Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) in the upcoming presidential election.

Donald Trump is riding high after Democrats’ failure to utilize the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to springboard Vice President Kamala Harris’s struggling campaign.