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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the United States would turn back the 7,000-person caravan of migrants from Central America when they reach the United States’ border with Mexico.

Only 19 percent of Democrat voters say illegal immigration is “a very big problem,” in contrast to 75 percent of Republican voters who think it is “a very big problem,” according to a recent Pew Research Center study.

During a Thursday phone interview with “Fox & Friends,” President Donald Trump discussed his disappointment with the Democrats for fighting him over building a wall at the United States-Mexico border, saying the only thing they have been good at is

Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Manuel Padilla makes the case for securing the southwestern border during an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas Editor-in-Chief Brandon Darby. Chief Padilla details why the U.S. needs to have functional control of its borders and discusses the effectiveness of walls and other technologies.

The Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector chief told Breitbart Texas his agents apprehended migrants from at least 52 countries, including many from nations with connections to terrorism.

The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) endorsed Republican Diane Harkey for Congress on Tuesday, citing her support for public safety, understanding of the need to “improve border security,” and commitment to repairing America’s “broken immigration system.”

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher was glad to see former President Barack Obama campaign for his opponent last week as Democrats move farther to the left, inconsistent with his district’s voters, he told Breitbart News Sunday SiriusXM 125 listeners and Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House.

President Donald Trump said he would not force a government shutdown over wall funding and border security before the midterm elections, suggesting that he made a deal with House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said on “Fox & Friends” that Republicans have a better shot at keeping the majority during the 2018 midterm elections if they come through on the border wall. “What was probably the single biggest promise

“The Democrats want to turn America into one big fat sanctuary city for criminal aliens,” Trump said during a rally in West Virginia with a group of supporters. 

“I have no red line, unlike President Obama,” Trump said referring to his predecessor. “I just want great border security.”

Rep. Paul Gosar resolutely endorsed former Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward for the U.S. Senate over fellow Rep. Martha McSally on Tuesday, citing his firsthand experience working with each of McSally and Ward, their positions on border security, and amnesty.

A study by St. Michael’s Hospital of Toronto published in June found that one in five deaths among young adults in the United States is now related to opioid drugs.

Actress and activist Barbara Streisand took to Twitter this week and accused President Donald Trump of “kidnapping children at the border” and “holding them hostage” in exchange for border wall funding.

This so-called “migrant child separation crisis” is as phony and manufactured as the Russian collusion hoax, a ginned up controversy fabricated by the media to blot out President Trump’s success with North Korea, a booming economy, and to distract from the nuclear fallout that came via the Inspector General report on our disgraced FBI, including this week’s devastating congressional hearings.

President Donald Trump defended his tough enforcement of immigration laws on Monday, saying that he would not allow unchecked flows of illegal immigration into the country.

Australia’s annual migrant intake is continuing to fall as tougher border checks and visa security combine to slash the number of new arrivals.

“Unless it includes a wall, and I mean a wall, a real wall, and unless it includes very strong border security, there will be no approvals from me,” Trump said.

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey says his state’s border with Mexico is not secure and praised President Donald Trump’s call for the deployment of National Guard troops to supplement border security efforts.

The border city of Reynosa continues to be the scene of fierce gun battles where convoys of cartel gunmen continue to spray gunfire at each other, police, and military forces. The battles continue without any regard for innocent bystanders. The fighting is tied to two rival factions of the Gulf Cartel who continue to battle for territorial control.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott told members of the state’s National Guard that their presence will strengthen border security and make a meaningful difference. The governor ordered 1,400 Texas National Guardsmen to the border in response to President Donald Trumps call for additional security measures.

The Pentagon announced on Thursday it was standing up a new cell to support President Trump’s activation of National Guard troops along the U.S. border with Mexico. 

More studies of the opioid crisis are stressing that prescription painkillers are not the driving force behind increased drug abuse and overdose deaths, contrary to a hardening media and political consensus that doctors and drug companies are the primary villains of the opioid saga.

President Donald Trump gave credit to Mexico for helping break up the illegal immigration “caravan” from Honduras to the United States.

The early theory of the opioid crisis and the “White Death” was that over-reliance on prescription painkillers was a major factor in rising mortality rates. Americans were reporting more pain to doctors than ever before, and receiving more painkiller prescriptions as a result. New research and analysis challenge these assumptions by arguing that the opioid crisis flows largely from drugs like heroin and fentanyl, which exploded just as prescription drug use was beginning to decline, and one of the primary contributing factors was the migrant crisis President Barack Obama unleashed in his second term.

Jim Chilton knows a thing or two about border security in the United States. The multi-generational rancher’s 50,000-acre beef cattle operation stretches along the border between Arizona and Mexico.

The 2,232 page Omnibus bill includes a specific clause barring funding for a wall on the southern border that mirrors the new prototypes already there.

Jeff Schwilk, founder of San Diegans for Secure Borders (SDSB), joined Breitbart News Senior Editors at Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight to share details of a rally scheduled Tuesday in San Diego, CA, to support President Donald Trump and the administration’s proposals for construction of a southern border wall.

While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) argued that if Republicans don’t do anything on DACA, the program ends, “and a lot of these young people start getting deported,” it would “destroy” the Republican Party. He further

Pro-open borders Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has committed to introducing immigration legislation that would give amnesty to potentially millions of illegal aliens in exchange for three years of funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Pro-open borders Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) says he will attempt to “force a vote” in the U.S. Senate on a plan that would extend a temporary amnesty program in exchange for minor funding for a border wall.

“I’m totally opposed to amnesty,” Bill Hartzell, an Angel Family member whose 93-year-old grandmother-in-law was raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant from Mexico in 2013, told Breitbart News Tonight co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Wednesday.

Last Thursday afternoon, President Trump presented the outlines of his proposed “deal” on DACA. It offers full amnesty with a path to citizenship for 1.8 million DACA eligible illegal aliens.

Austrian populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) Interior Minister Herbert Kickl has announced the creation of a new border force which he said will “ensure orderly border management”.

President Donald Trump admitted that he used “tough language” during his immigration reform meeting with members of Congress but hinted that reports of his “shithole countries” comment were not accurate.

“We don’t need a 2,000-mile wall … where you have rivers and mountains, and everything else protecting, but we need a wall for a fairly good portion,” he said.