Tag: Border

Democrats debut sweeping immigration reform bill featuring eight-year path to citizenship

Anna Giaritelli · February 18, 2021 4:27 pm

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, (pictured above) announced that he would invite Stephen Willeford, a man who confronted the Sutherland Springs shooter in Texas, to watch the State of the Union address on Tuesday. The congressman's office said he will also pay for travel accommodations for Willeford and his wife. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Top Democrat aims to use funds for the wall to deter illegal immigration by other means

Anna Giaritelli · February 18, 2021 11:33 am

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (center) speaks at an event.

DeSantis slams Biden administration for ‘hypocrisy’ over lack of virus testing for migrants while floating domestic travel bans

Emma Colton · February 14, 2021 5:15 pm

Texas border communities glad to help but cautious as migrants released at border

Anna Giaritelli · February 13, 2021 12:52 am

FILE - This Aug. 1, 2013 file photo shows immigration reform supporters blocking a street on Capitol Hill in Washington. For many House conservatives, President Barack Obamaâs decision to delay a central provision of his health care law has emerged as a major stumbling block _ not to health coverage, but to an immigration bill. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Beltway Confidential

Biden’s dangerous immigration dance

Ryan Girdusky · February 12, 2021 5:30 pm

A United States Customs and Border Protection Officer checks the documents of migrants before being taken to apply for asylum in the United States on the International Bridge 1 in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

Biden to allow into US thousands of asylum-seekers who were forced to remain in Mexico

Anna Giaritelli · February 12, 2021 2:19 pm

Biden administration stops border officials from expelling unaccompanied children despite court allowing it

Anna Giaritelli · February 11, 2021 2:37 pm

Immigrant children play outside a former Job Corps site that now houses them, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Homestead, Fla. It is not known if the children crossed the border as unaccompanied minors or were separated from family members. Wrenching scenes of migrant children being separated from their parents at the southern border are roiling campaigns ahead of midterm elections, emboldening Democrats on the often-fraught issue of immigration.

Biden’s hands tied on border crisis by 1997 court decision

Anna Giaritelli · February 10, 2021 11:34 am

Biden’s hands tied on border crisis by 1997 court decision

Biden’s hands tied on border crisis by 1997 court decision

Anna Giaritelli · February 10, 2021 12:00 am

Migrant families cross the Rio Grande to get illegally across the border into the United States, to turn themselves in to authorities and ask for asylum, next to the Paso del Norte international bridge, near El Paso, Texas.

‘The brink of a huge humanitarian crisis’: 52 House Republicans tell Biden to take border crisis seriously

Anna Giaritelli · February 9, 2021 10:52 pm

Fourth-generation rancher: Biden halting border wall is a ‘politically driven agenda’ that will hurt America

Emma Colton · February 9, 2021 5:51 pm

Border Patrol agents stop men thought to have entered the country illegally, near McAllen, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border. President Joe Biden is rushing to wipe out some of his predecessor's toughest immigration measures to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border.

Washington Secrets

Book: Terrorist border crossings are real

Paul Bedard · February 8, 2021 3:29 pm