President Trump’s populist immigration agenda and pleas for funding for a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border have continued to go ignored heading into the 2018 midterm elections.
“I want to know, where is the money for Border Security and the WALL in this ridiculous Spending Bill, and where will it come from after the Midterms?” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Young Randy Branum rose to a podium in front of the U.S. Capitol building Friday morning telling the story of the drunk illegal alien who hit his mom’s car, killing his mom, critically injuring him, and critically injuring the offender’s own two children.
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.
Two months from today, we will be analyzing the results of the 2018 midterm elections. Will Democrats regret not dumping Nancy Pelosi?
Actor, immigrant, and Republican congressional candidate Antonio Sabato, Jr. said in a video posted by the Daily Caller that he fully supports President Donald Trump’s border wall along the United States-Mexico border.
While the GOP still has a chance to hold onto the House there are five factors combining to create a “Blue Wave,” and Republicans from President Donald Trump on down will have to focus and fight hard to stop it.
House conservatives continue to mull whether to block a combined spending package to push for wall funding for the bill.
“I have no red line, unlike President Obama,” Trump said referring to his predecessor. “I just want great border security.”
President Donald Trump again signaled his support for the wall Monday, after threatening to shut down the government if Congress failed to deliver construction funding.
President Donald Trump campaigned and likely won the presidency on his promise to build a wall between Mexico and the U.S, and a new Rasmussen poll shows that a majority of Americans think our border is more porous than in other countries.
“We’re discussing today the funding of the wall which we very much need,” Trump said to reporters at the White House. “We’re going to ask for an increase in wall spending so we can finish it quicker.”
Democrats need to compromise on migration politics or they will end up in a much weaker position in 2020, says Andrew Sullivan, who is a prominent center-left intellectual with a column in New York magazine.
We cannot enforce our laws at the border, because a child might cry somewhere in America and people will be upset. We have to reduce the human element in law enforcement. It’s wall, or nothing.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said at the National Sheriffs’ Association annual conference in New Orleans on Monday that the way to end the stream of people, including children, who are coming across the U.S. border illegally is to build the wall and enact laws that stop illegal immigration and amnesty.
“I don’t want to cause any problems, but in the end, Mexico is going to pay for the wall … they’re going to pay for the wall and they’re going to enjoy it, okay?” he said.
The president noted on Thursday that he frequently refers to gang members as “animals” and will continue doing so.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has repeatedly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for not forcing Mexico to pay for the multi-billion-dollar wall along America’s southern border after his party argued against the proposal, noting that the measure is xenophobic and would strain the relationship between the two countries.
President Donald Trump attacked California Governor Jerry Brown in a speech Saturday in Macob County, Michigan, mocking him with the nickname “Moonbeam” and criticizing his state’s “sanctuary” policies.
“Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must stop people from going through Mexico and into the U.S.,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
A new fencing project underway by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at the United States-Mexico border is being touted by President Trump’s administration as his border “wall.”
A conservative legal expert says President Donald Trump has three legal powers to bypass the establishment’s bipartisan opposition to a border wall.
“President Obama made changes that basically created no border,” Trump said, criticizing the “so weak and so pathetic” laws for immigration enforcement.
President Donald Trump urged Congress to prevent large groups of illegal immigrants from entering the country.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump went to church on Sunday to celebrate Easter.
“We started building our wall. I’m so proud of it. We started,” Trump said, pointing to the pictures he posted on Twitter of the new border bollard fencing constructed in Calexico.
You see, it only looks like Trump is The Worst Negotiator God Ever Created. Instead of telling Democrats, “I won’t even talk about DACA until we have the border wall,” Trump has repeatedly given up the wall, aka The Central Promise of His Campaign, Without Which He Would Not Be in the White House.
Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer says any effort by President Donald Trump to shift military funding to build his border wall get blocked by a lawsuit, acording to the Washington Post.
The omnibus purposefully narrows the scope of what the president can do with the $1.6 billion—just 0.12 percent of the spending bill—included in the bill for border security.
President Donald Trump defended the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill on Sunday, arguing that it was a “downpayment” on his promised wall on the southern border.
Conservatives are understandably frustrated by the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law, under protest, on Friday. But the omnibus is not a disaster. In fact, Republicans scored many important wins.
President Donald Trump signed the 2,232 page, $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill Friday, explaining he felt compelled to do so in order to properly fund the U.S. military.
President Donald Trump signaled disappointment that the 2,232-page omnibus spending bill only provided $1.6 billion for border fencing, but said that it helped “start” the wall.
The omnibus spending bill passed by the Republican-controlled House and Senate does not fund the 1,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that President Trump requested last year.
The omnibus spending bill passed by the Republican-controlled House and Senate specifically bans President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from building new border walls and fencing with the prototype designs the president most recently visited.
