Tag: Border

President Trump has made border protection "a priority — and already we are seeing the results," Sessions noted. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

AG Sessions on US-Mexico border: ‘This is the Trump era’

Kelly Cohen · April 11, 2017 5:17 pm

U.S. Border Patrol vehicles come and go from a checkpoint in Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Park Service: Illegals destroying federal lands, unsafe for camping

Paul Bedard · April 11, 2017 2:45 pm

CBP reported 462 assaults against its officers from Sept. 31 through March 31, compared to 190 a year earlier. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Assaults against Border Patrol officers double

Anna Giaritelli · April 10, 2017 10:58 pm

The continuing resolution that is currently funding the government will expire on April 28. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Cornyn: ‘There’s not going to be a shutdown’

Sarah Bedford · April 9, 2017 7:03 pm

A woman stands outside her home located next to the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico, the gray, metal gate behind her, in the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, across the border from Sunland Park, New Mexico. This week, Mexican residents like her are losing their view toward the U.S. as each hour a crew welds into place two more segments of steel border fence. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Tillerson: Border wall funding not discussed between US, Mexico last week

Anna Giaritelli · April 9, 2017 2:18 pm

DHS is in the basement, with an overall score of 56 percent on employee engagement. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Trump to nominate DHS official to lead US Citizenship and Immigration Services

Sarah Bedford · April 8, 2017 6:43 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will head to Arizona on Tuesday for a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border, his first such tour as top Justice official. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Jeff Sessions will tour US-Mexico border next week

Anna Giaritelli · April 7, 2017 11:25 pm

So what do Americans truly care about? Not what is being reported on the news. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

What does middle America really care about?

Elizabeth Peace · April 6, 2017 3:58 pm

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson believes President Trump's border wall proposal is a metaphor for securing the border. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Ron Johnson: Trump’s ‘wall’ is a metaphor for securing the border

Kyle Feldscher · April 6, 2017 12:02 pm

Looking at the new data, one almost has to wonder whether we will need a wall in the first place. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Beltway Confidential

Is Trump’s tough talk on immigration making his wall unnecessary?

David Freddoso · April 5, 2017 10:00 pm

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 82 illegal immigrants in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area as part of in a five-day sting that concluded March 30, according to a press release Wednesday. (Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

Immigration officers arrest 79 illegal immigrants from 26 countries near DC

Anna Giaritelli · April 5, 2017 9:35 pm

The number of southern border apprehensions hit a 17-year low in March. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

White House: Credit Trump for ‘dramatic’ downturn in illegal immigration

Anna Giaritelli · April 5, 2017 8:46 pm