Tag: Border

Feds cut $167 million in domestic programs to house, feed illegals for just 1 month

Feds cut $167 million in domestic programs to house, feed illegals for just 1 month

Paul Bedard · November 30, 2016 12:07 am

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said House lawmakers will take up a 2017 budget early next year, but not before Inauguration Day. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

GOP’s ‘aggressive’ 2017 agenda: Obamacare, border, taxes, entitlements

Susan Ferrechio · November 29, 2016 5:15 pm

A U.S. Border Patrol boat secures the area on the Rio Grande river in Mission, Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says rocks were thrown at CBP officers from the Mexican side of the river recently. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez)

Rocks thrown at US border agents

Pete Kasperowicz · November 24, 2016 4:46 pm

According to a new poll, 55 percent of voters said the incoming Trump administration should forego building a wall along the southern border, a hallmark of the president-elect's campaign. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Poll: Voters oppose key Trump priorities

Gabby Morrongiello · November 23, 2016 5:01 pm

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued an immigration detainer for Flores Sibrian, who was arrested on Nov. 17 and is being held on a $107,000 bond. (AP Photo)

Republicans want info on illegal immigrant accused of rape near DC

Susan Ferrechio · November 22, 2016 11:36 pm

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and Texas Department of Public Safety seize 57 bundles of marijuana weighing more than 1,200 pound at the Texas border along the Rio Grande, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 in Abram, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Report: Nearly all, 99.8%, of illegal drugs shipped to U.S. from Mexico

Paul Bedard · November 22, 2016 4:55 pm

CBP, which is housed in the Department of Homeland Security, said over the weekend that it has opened a "temporary holding facility" for immigrants in Tornillo, Texas. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

DHS preps ‘contingencies’ to deal with border mess

Pete Kasperowicz · November 22, 2016 5:01 am

A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent passes birdwatcher Nancy Hill, 81, along a section of the border wall Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016, in Hidago, Texas.

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Border bribery: A year’s salary in one day to let in drugs, illegals, terrorists

Paul Bedard · November 18, 2016 6:45 pm

Two off-duty federal law enforcement officers detained an armed man on the D.C. Metro near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport during the Monday night commute, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection press release issued Tuesday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Off-duty feds take down armed man on DC Metro

Anna Giaritelli · November 16, 2016 1:14 am

Watch: Emanuel says Chicago ‘will always be a sanctuary city’

Watch: Emanuel says Chicago ‘will always be a sanctuary city’

Pete Kasperowicz · November 15, 2016 1:04 pm

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted one day after Donald Trump won the presidential election that campaign advisers Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Jeff Sessions will have central roles in the new administration. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Gingrich: Giuliani, Sessions should have ‘major’ roles in Trump administration

Anna Giaritelli · November 10, 2016 4:51 am

MS-13 surging with influx of youths crossing border, 92% arrested illegal

MS-13 surging with influx of youths crossing border, 92% arrested illegal

Paul Bedard · November 4, 2016 2:38 pm