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To get around President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) lax enforcement of federal immigration law, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has issued a plan that would authorize states to deport illegal aliens and help build barriers along the United States-Mexico border.

The Great American Cleanup in Brownsville, Texas, took place this week, and John Rourke, owner of Blue Line Moving, showcased some of his findings, which included a major crossing point adorned with a Texas flag tent and ladder.

Mexican officials in Tijuana placed a three-ton section of the former Berlin Wall near the U.S. border with a message to “build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges.” The message ignores the stark difference in purpose between the two barriers.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), a 2024 GOP presidential candidate, has launched a new television ad in early states calling to “lead the charge” in stopping Democrat President Joe Biden’s “retreat” in the law enforcement and border security arenas.

A media report revealed that Biden administration officials welded border wall gates open near Lukeville, Arizona. The open gates allow migrants to freely walk through the border wall and into the Arizona desert.

Most of the 2024 GOP presidential candidates ahead of the first Republican debate on Wednesday answered an in-depth 10-question immigration policy questionnaire from Breitbart News.

Poland will hold votes on the border wall with Belarus and the rejection of an EU scheme to force the country to take in illegal migrants.

President Joe Biden, with help from Congress, has sent more than $66 billion in American taxpayer money to Ukraine since the start of its war with Russia—an allocation of money that could have built a border wall nearly two times across the United States-Mexico border.

Municipal police in Mexico arrested an alleged human smuggler and 16 migrants after the group attempted to enter the United States by cutting through a border fence. The police found the group in a cloned U.S. Border Patrol pickup truck.

President Joe Biden has agreed to stop funding the construction of United States-Mexico border wall using funds from the Defense and Treasury Departments. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday previewed his plan to secure the U.S. southern border, offering more details on how to address the Biden administration’s ongoing crisis.

Former President Donald Trump outlined his southern border and immigration policy platforms in great detail Saturday night, including laying out a vision to end “automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens,” resurrecting all “incredibly successful border policies” from his first term, and moving “massive portions” of federal law enforcement into immigration enforcement. 

On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” outgoing U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz stated that “we need to continue to build some wall” along the border and that the State Department needs to work “to instill some consequences for some

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said in an interview with Breitbart News that she is introducing legislation to restore a requirement to DNA test illegal aliens coming across the southern border. 

A surveillance video captured the scene as a human smuggler dropped a four-year-old child from the top of a California border wall. As San Diego Sector agents attempted to treat the child’s injuries, shots rang out from the Mexican side of the border.

A man stormed the border of the Vatican City State in his car Thursday evening, sailing through two security check points before eventually being apprehended.

The head of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Immigration said that the United States has an obligation to welcome migrants at the border as “long-lost” brothers and sisters showing up at our door.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” CNN Correspondent Rosa Flores stated that while a border wall won’t decrease the number of people who cross, a wall does give authorities “more operational control. It gives them more control of the situation.”

There are “massive problems” on the southern border and President Joe Biden is responsible after defaulting on the issue from day one in office, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said in a press conference in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday.

The chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration has sent a letter urging members of Congress to oppose the Secure the Border Act of 2023 as an unjustifiable piece of legislation.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to become ambassador to Jordan says she supports American taxpayers funding border security measures in the Middle Eastern country even as the White House has abandoned building a border wall along the United States-Mexico border.

The Oscars are upon us and you know what that means: Walls. That’s right. Ten-foot high walls and countless barriers and barricades will surround the Dolby Theatre to shield Hollywood’s biggest stars on its biggest night from would-be gawkers.

The mother of two children killed by fentanyl poisoning slammed the federal government’s extravagant support for illegal migrants in a House hearing on Tuesday.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Rosi Orozco, a former Mexican congresswoman, highlighted how bad human trafficking is on America’s southern border on the Unmuted with Marsha podcast.

Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) said on Breitbart News Saturday that Republicans should leverage must-pass bills such as measures to raise the debt ceiling, the farm bill, and spending bills to secure America’s southern border.

Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) have proposed the “Build the Wall Now Act” to immediately restart border wall construction and close existing gaps in the barrier. 

Germany is using the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria as an excuse to weaken border controls, vowing to allow in many more migrants said to be fleeing the crisis.

Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) led a coalition of Senate Republicans in introducing a comprehensive border security package to curb the border crisis, crack down on asylum abuse, and protect American families.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) shouted, “It’s your fault,” at President Joe Biden during the State of the Union Address when he raised concerns about fentanyl deaths.

The Texas Facilities Commission awarded a $224 million contract to build nearly ten miles of 30-foot border wall segments on private or state-owned properties along the Rio Grande in Webb County.

Border security advocates with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) criticized President Biden for his photo-op on the border, which they say was “designed to quell criticism.”

The Hungarian government says it apprehended some 269,254 “illegal entrants” at its southern border in 2022; a huge jump from the already high figure of 122,239 in 2021.

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) thanked President Joe Biden for halting the construction of border wall along the United States-Mexico border at a North American summit on Tuesday.

Construction is scheduled to begin next week to close gaps in border barriers near the Yuma Morelos Dam Project. It appears the improvements will tie into shipping container barriers put in place by the State of Arizona.

Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) was picked over Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) by the Steering Committee to chair the House Homeland Security Committee, which will oversee border security, cyber, emergency response, and other homeland security issues.

President Joe Biden tweeted an image of his first-ever border visit Sunday that featured part of the “wall,” or border fence, in El Paso, Texas — after he and his party shut down President Donald Trump’s border wall.