Tag: Border

‘Unforgivable crime’: Iranian guards allegedly torture and drown dozens of Afghan migrants

Zach Halaschak · May 7, 2020 11:28 pm

President Trump speaks during a tour as he reviews border wall prototypes, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego.

Trump wants southern border wall painted black to make too hot to touch in summer: Report

Anthony Leonardi · May 6, 2020 8:07 pm

Beltway Confidential

Declining international student enrollment amid coronavirus actually hurts American students

Brad Polumbo · May 6, 2020 5:46 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2104 file photo, Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans urging a steep increase in the Pentagonâs budget have received $10 million in campaign contributions over the course of their congressional careers from defense contractors that would benefit from higher levels of military spending.

Armed Services chairman slams border ‘vanity wall,’ wants USS Theodore Roosevelt commander reinstated

Abraham Mahshie · April 29, 2020 6:01 pm

Former Vice President Joe Biden shown greeting Natalia Elias and her brother Guido in Miami, Saturday, May 3, 2014. An immigration proponent in the 2020 election, he said then at a speech that a "constant, substantial stream of immigrants" is important to the American economy.

Ex-ICE chief warns of border surge on ‘Day One’ of Biden presidency

Paul Bedard · April 29, 2020 5:04 pm

Mexican drug smugglers feel pandemic pain, just like any other business

Anna Giaritelli · April 24, 2020 4:00 am

Contractors last Septemberg erect a section of Pentagon-funded border wall along the Colorado River in Yuma, Ariz.

Washington Secrets

LIVE: Trump’s ‘border wall cam’ debuts, panel after panel in place

Paul Bedard · April 23, 2020 7:02 pm

Thomas Homan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are seen.

‘AOC is not going to like it’: Former ICE head puts ‘false narrative’ about agency ‘to bed’ in book

Emma Colton · April 23, 2020 3:16 pm

Border Patrol agent Vincent Pirro walks towards prototypes for a border wall.

‘Delivering on his promise’: Trump administration streams footage of border wall construction

Emma Colton · April 23, 2020 2:13 pm

The first panels of levee border wall are seen at a construction site along the U.S.-Mexico border, in Donna, Texas last November. The administration is putting up a web cam to track construction for the public.

Washington Secrets

Border wall construction ‘cam’ live this week: ‘164 miles of promises kept’

Paul Bedard · April 21, 2020 3:09 pm

A man passes new border wall sections, right, as they replace the old fencing, left, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, near Yuma, Arizona. Top Trump administration officials will visit South Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall, attempting to show progress on perhaps the president's best-known campaign promise four years ago. But most of the wall went up in areas that already had smaller barriers.

Smugglers sawed into new border wall 18 times in one month

Caitlin Yilek · April 17, 2020 6:11 pm

President Donald Trump, center, poses for a photos with Vice President Mike Pence, front left, and Bristol County, Mass., Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, front right, during an event with sheriffs in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018.

Top sheriff: Illegal immigrants released over COVID-19 will disappear

Paul Bedard · April 13, 2020 7:10 pm