Tag: Mexico

White House director of legislative affairs noted that more than two dozen Senate Democrats voted for 700 miles of border fencing in 2006, but now are threatening to shut down the government over funding for President Trump's border wall. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: While other controversies rage, work on border wall moves forward

Byron York · May 30, 2017 3:03 am

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan, left, and Deputy Chief Carla Provost. The truck driver was taken into custody and will be prosecuted for immigrant smuggling.

Border agents find 14 illegal immigrants hiding in dump truck

Anna Giaritelli · May 25, 2017 10:26 pm

Most of those targeted had prior convictions for drug offenses or drunk driving. Fifteen had been convicted of sex crimes, and another 27 for domestic violence, according to ICE. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

ICE arrests nearly 200 illegal immigrants in California

Melissa Quinn · May 25, 2017 6:39 pm

Former President Barack Obama, during a event on democracy and global responsibility in Berlin, discussed the importance of humanitarian aid, saying "We can't hide behind a wall." (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Obama: ‘We can’t hide behind a wall’

Melissa Quinn · May 25, 2017 12:57 pm

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox used a photo of his own inauguration in Mexico to call out Trump for what he viewed as his fixation with the crowd size at his inauguration. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)

Vicente Fox taunts Trump: Obama’s inauguration crowd was ‘much bigger’

Sean Langille · May 24, 2017 6:27 pm

The budget calls for a $2.6 billion investment in border security, including "funding to plan, design and construct a physical wall along the southern border." (AP Photo/Christian Torres)

Trump’s budget calls for ‘a physical wall’

Joseph Lawler · May 23, 2017 3:38 pm

—œWe know what we own, and we, as Americans, need to confront that we are the market,—? Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters. (AP)

National Security

Rex Tillerson and John Kelly: US responsible for Mexican drug violence

Joel Gehrke · May 18, 2017 6:13 pm

Tillerson, along with Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, hosted their Mexican counterparts at the State Department for a discussion about how to counteract drug trafficking into the United States. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Rex Tillerson: ‘The wall does not define our relationship’ with Mexico

Joel Gehrke · May 18, 2017 5:07 pm

The White House formally told Congress in a letter that it intends to open talks with Canada and Mexico to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House tells Congress it will renegotiate NAFTA

Sean Higgins · May 18, 2017 3:47 pm

Young people wave colored flags reading "Peace" as they form a symbolic human wall along the Rio Grande, which marks the border between Mexico and the U.S. in Ciudad Juarez, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Responding to plans by President Donald Trump to build a wall along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border, more than a thousand people lined the Mexican bank of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez Friday, holding hands and carrying flowers.(AP Photo/Christian Torres)

1,100 times more illegals in US than Mexico, 11 million vs. 10,000

Paul Bedard · May 17, 2017 3:29 pm

The Trump administration is expected to inform Congress early next week of its plans. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Mexico expects NAFTA talks to take place in late August

Anna Giaritelli · May 17, 2017 12:43 am

Ann Coulter said President Trump is allowing his "little tiny ego" to get in the way of White House staffing decisions. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)

Ann Coulter on Trump presidency: ‘All of the Trump true believers are petrified’

Caitlin Yilek · May 15, 2017 12:18 pm