Tag: Mexico

Customs and Border Protection officials told a House homeland security subcommittee technology can help them secure rural regions. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Border Patrol official: Wall best utilized only in urban areas

Anna Giaritelli · July 25, 2017 4:42 pm

Workers use a crane to lift a segment of a new fence into place on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico, where Sunland Park, New Mexico, meets the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Congress moves to build Trump’s border wall in face of Democratic opposition

Susan Ferrechio · July 24, 2017 4:01 am

Congressman Will Hurd, R-TX, in his office on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, January 26th, 2016. (File photo)

Will Hurd calls San Antonio human trafficking crime ‘sickening’

Al Weaver · July 23, 2017 9:28 pm

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox should raise any objections to President Trump's policies in a more dignified manner than profanity-laced rants, using his ties on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. Congress to cultivate a better, closer relationship with an important ally.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico’s Right should stop antagonizing Trump

Eduardo Rivero Puente · July 21, 2017 4:01 am

"As Americans we should be ashamed of ourselves that we have done almost nothing to get our arms around drug demand." (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

National Security

DHS Chief John Kelly: US drug demand causing Central America to ‘suffer terribly’

Anna Giaritelli · July 20, 2017 4:40 pm

President Trump's tweets about the travel ban may factor into how the Supreme Court would interpret the effort. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals mentioned the tweets in its opinion preserving the blockade of the ban. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump looks for NAFTA tweaks as administration announces priorities

Sean Higgins · July 17, 2017 10:29 pm

Seems ironic for a president whose own clothing line is made everywhere except in the U.S. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

‘Made in America’ week enshrines Trump as president of hypocrisy

Mark Vargas · July 17, 2017 3:55 pm

"We've never seen a drop in current illegal immigration as what we're experiencing now," Brandon Judd said. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

Border Patrol union chief praises ‘miraculous’ drop in illegal immigration under Trump

Anna Giaritelli · July 17, 2017 3:02 pm

"Under this program, once through the courts, they [first-time illegal entrants] have a lower recidivism rate," a Border Patrol agent said. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Dead bodies in the desert prompted tougher border measures in Arizona

Anna Giaritelli · July 16, 2017 4:01 am

"Sometimes getting it right means refusing to take the politically tempting shortcomings." said Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the National Governors Association meeting.

Justin Trudeau tells US governors that NAFTA renegotiation with Trump should create a ‘thinner border for trade’

Josh Siegel · July 15, 2017 4:46 am

President wants his proposed wall on the Mexican border to be transparent and have solar panels. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP)

Energy and Environment

Trump wants see-through border wall so agents don’t get hit by 60-pound ‘sacks of drugs’

Ryan Lovelace · July 13, 2017 7:52 pm

Tucson Border Patrol agents rescued 80 people in the west desert who had attempted to illegally enter the country in June alone.
(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Tucson Border Sector prosecuted 565 first-time illegal trespassers in June

Anna Giaritelli · July 13, 2017 6:50 pm