Tag: Border

That should put lawmakers on notice before they skip town Thursday for a two-week recess. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Beltway Confidential

GOP voters open to government shutdown over border wall

Philip Wegmann · April 5, 2017 4:30 pm

Paul told Kelly there are reports of thousands of searches that set an "extraordinarily unreasonable standard." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

DHS promises Rand Paul to probe reports of ‘unreasonable’ searches against US citizens

Pete Kasperowicz · April 5, 2017 4:11 pm

Kelly agreed that a "wall" can be seen as a combination of physical barriers but also technology aimed at enforcing the border. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

DHS Secretary John Kelly: Border wall will combine concrete, fencing, drones

Pete Kasperowicz · April 5, 2017 3:22 pm

Kelly agreed that a "wall" can be seen as a combination of physical barriers but also technology aimed at enforcing the border. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Border apprehensions hit 17-year low in March

Anna Giaritelli · April 4, 2017 9:48 pm

In this Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016, photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent searches for suspected illegal immigrants passing through the area in Hidalgo, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Washington Secrets

Border boss: Wall cut illegal crossings 94%

Paul Bedard · April 4, 2017 10:00 am

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 153 illegal immigrants in Texas last month as part of standard targeted enforcement operations, according to a press release Monday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)

ICE officers arrest 153 criminal immigrants in Texas bust

Anna Giaritelli · April 3, 2017 10:19 pm

Higgins laments the "less than lethal" weapons border agents are given to protect themselves. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)

GOP congressman: ‘If I’m a border agent … I am returning fire with a Glock’

Mandy Mayfield · April 3, 2017 7:14 pm

The Republican also knocked Trump's border wall with Mexico. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Lindsey Graham: ‘I can’t stop globalization’

Daniel Chaitin · April 1, 2017 3:20 pm

Tolerance? Hispanic contractors receive death threats for bidding to build border wall

Red Alert Politics

Tolerance? Hispanic contractors receive death threats for bidding to build border wall

Ryan Girdusky · March 31, 2017 12:35 am

"That is not where we — ICE is focusing its efforts at all," the attorney general said. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Jeff Sessions: US is not going after non-criminal illegal immigrants

Anna Giaritelli · March 31, 2017 12:32 am

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's lawyers are claiming the Mexican drug lord's constitutional rights are being violated because of the harsh treatment the prisoner has received in U.S. prison. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

‘El Chapo’ claims his constitutional rights are being violated in U.S. prison

Anna Giaritelli · March 30, 2017 10:58 pm

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said that President Trump's long-promised southwest border wall shouldn't be built on the American side of the line. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke: Border wall might have to be in Mexico

Joel Gehrke · March 29, 2017 3:03 pm