6/5/2019

BORDER/BRITAIN/EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump reassured Ireland’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar, on Wednesday [6-5-19] that Britain’s exit from the European Union would ‘work out very well,’ including for Ireland, ‘with your wall, your border.’ This remark prompted the Irish leader to reply ‘one thing we want to avoid, of course, is a wall or border […]

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6/5/2019

BORDER/DEMS/FEDERAL FUNDING/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democratic leaders are facing sharp pushback from rank-and-file members on plans to deliver billions of dollars to ease the migrant crisis at the southern border, threatening to drag out another border funding fight with President Donald Trump. Leaders of several groups, including the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the […]

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6/5/2019

BORDER/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday talks are going well with Mexico but that he’s prepared to enact new tariffs — a move that faces opposition from his own party and risks the strong economy he’s counting on heading into the 2020 presidential campaign. He also said he’s prepared to slap new tariffs […]

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6/4/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Tuesday [6-4-19] said he plans to move forward with imposing tariffs on Mexican imports next week as part of his effort to stem the flow of migrants crossing the southern border, telling reporters at a news conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May that Republican senators would be ‘foolish’ […]

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5/31/2019

BORDER/DRUGS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “90% of the Drugs coming into the United States come through Mexico & our Southern Border. 80,000 people died last year, 1,000,000 people ruined. This has gone on for many years & nothing has been done about it. We have a 100 Billion Dollar Trade Deficit with Mexico. It’s time!” –Donald Trump, […]

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5/31/2019

BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hard to believe that with the Crisis on the Border, the Dems won’t do the quick and easy fix. Would solve the problem but they want Open Borders, which equals crime!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 31, 2019 8:14 am […]

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5/30/2019

BORDER/MEXICO/TARIFFS: “To address the emergency at the Southern Border, I am invoking the authorities granted to me by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Accordingly, starting on June 10, 2019, the United States will impose a 5 percent Tariff on all goods imported from Mexico. If the illegal migration crisis is alleviated through effective actions […]

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5/30/2019

BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Yesterday, Border Patrol agents apprehended the largest group of illegal aliens ever: 1,036 people who illegally crossed the border in El Paso around 4am. Democrats need to stand by our incredible Border Patrol and finally fix the loopholes at our Border! https://t.co/6K1rIUzorM” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 30, 2019 4:16 pm […]

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5/30/2019

BORDER/COURTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a federal court to block additional sections of President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Attorneys asked the court to halt construction of a border wall in Southern California and three sections near Tucson, Ariz., late Wednesday. The ACLU, representing the Sierra Club […]

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5/30/2019

BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump appears to have set his sights on a North Dakota construction firm with a checkered legal record to build portions of his signature border wall. The family-owned company, Fisher Sand & Gravel, claims it can build the wall cheaper and faster than competitors. It was among a handful […]

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5/29/2019

BORDER/CIVIL RIGHTS/HILLARY CLINTON/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hillary Clinton said Wednesday [5-29-19] that President Donald Trump’s administration is tearing down ‘hard-won civil rights’…Slamming the White House’s hardline immigration policies, Clinton pointed to the US southern border, where she said ‘our government is tearing children from the arms of their parents’ and ‘locking them in cages.’ The former […]

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5/29/2019

BORDER/COURTS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Trump administration on Wednesday [5-29-19] asked a federal judge to allow construction of the president’s border wall to commence while it appeals an unfavorable ruling from last week. In court filings, the Justice Department said it would appeal a federal judge‘s decision to halt a $1 billion transfer of Pentagon […]

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5/27/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States is for the first time sending illegal border-crossers to other cities for processing, transporting more than 3,000 each week from southern Texas and Arizona to other locations as the government struggles to deal with surging numbers of nearly 100,000 migrants a month crossing the southern border. The Trump administration […]

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5/25/2019

BORDER/COURTS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Another activist Obama appointed judge has just ruled against us on a section of the Southern Wall that is already under construction. This is a ruling against Border Security and in favor of crime, drugs and human trafficking. We are asking for an expedited appeal!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, 2019 2:35 […]

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5/23/2019

BORDER/DHS/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump has ‘aggressively’ pushed for the Army Corps of Engineers to award a contract to a North Dakota-based construction company to build sections of his proposed wall along the southern US border, The Washington Post reported Thursday [5-23-19]. Citing conversations with multiple unnamed administration officials, the paper said the President has […]

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5/23/2019

BORDER/FEDERAL FUNDING/GOP/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans senators say President Donald Trump has agreed to a $19.1 billion disaster aid bill, providing relief to a country beset by devastating floods, wildfires and hurricanes without funding for the border that the President had sought. Late Thursday [5-23-19], the President tweeted his approval of the measure: ‘The U.S. […]

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5/22/2019

BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Homeland Security Committee broke out in a skirmish today after Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) accused the Trump administration of intentionally killing immigrant children at the border. Underwood’s comments — in which she said a recent string of child deaths were ‘intentional’ and a ‘policy change’ — came during the testimony […]

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5/22/2019

BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Much of the Wall being built at the Southern Border is a complete demolition and rebuilding of old and worthless barriers with a brand new Wall and footings. Problem is, the Haters say that is not a new Wall, but rather a renovation. Wrong, and we must build where most needed….”  –Donald […]

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5/21/2019

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am very disappointed that Mexico is doing virtually nothing to stop illegal immigrants from coming to our Southern Border where everyone knows that because of the Democrats, our Immigration Laws are totally flawed & broken…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 21, 2019 11:16 am […]

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5/17/2019

BORDER/CENTRAL AMERICA/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is preparing to send Central American migrants caught along the southern border to Border Patrol stations “across the entire nation,’ according to a senior Border Patrol official who confirmed the plans Friday. With more than 4,500 people being caught each day crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, the agency has […]

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5/17/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Border Patrol is apprehending record numbers of people at the Southern Border. The bad ‘hombres,’ of which there are many, are being detained & will be sent home. Those which we release under the ridiculous Catch & Telease loophole, are being registered and will be removed later!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 17, […]

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5/17/2019

BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats now realize that there is a National Emergency at the Border and that, if we work together, it can be immediately fixed. We need Democrat votes and all will be well!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 17, 2019 5:36 am […]

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5/16/2019

BORDER/DEMS/FEDERAL FUNDING/ICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic leaders have agreed to fund a portion of the White House’s emergency funding request to address the surge of migrants at the southern border, according to multiple sources. Top Democrats indicated to Republicans late Thursday afternoon that they are willing to include some of the White House’s $4.5 billion proposal […]

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5/9/2019

BORDER/DHS/ICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration will start piloting a Rapid DNA testing program at the US-Mexico border in an attempt to ‘identify and prosecute individuals posing as families,’ two Department of Homeland Security officials told CNN. The pilot will reportedly run for two to three days to ‘assess the usefulness of this technology in […]

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5/8/2019

BORDER/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans are holding high-level meetings with President Donald Trump on an immigration reform bill. House Democrats are crafting their own plan to protect Dreamers. And the administration has formally requested billions in emergency aid to address the surge of migrants at the border. But the apparent movement is something of a […]

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5/7/2019

BORDER/CONGRESS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “A bipartisan group of more than 100 former members of the House of Representatives filed a court brief Tuesday [5-7-19] in a case challenging the President’s national emergency declaration. The case, brought by the House of Representatives, seeks to block President Donald Trump from circumventing Congress to fund his signature […]

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5/5/2019

BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @JudicialWatch: .@realDonaldTrump retweeted our petition! Right now, our borders are being used as gateways for drug cartels & violent c…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 5, 2019 8:45 am […]

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5/3/2019

BORDER/CHILDREN/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House chief of staff and retired Marine Gen. John Kelly has joined the board of directors for Caliburn International, the parent company of Comprehensive Health Services, which operates shelters for unaccompanied migrant children. One of the shelters the company operates is Homestead, a temporary influx facility in Florida that houses […]

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5/1/2019

BORDER/CONGRESS/FEDERAL FUNDING/HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House asked Congress on Wednesday [5-1-19] to allocate $4.5 billion in emergency funds for the southwestern border as federal agencies struggle to house and cope with the influx of asylum seekers coming into the United States. The request, which includes about $3.3 billion to house unaccompanied migrant children, feed […]

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4/29/2019

BORDER/DRUGS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Coyotes and Drug Cartels are in total control of the Mexico side of the Southern Border. They have labs nearby where they make drugs to sell into the U.S. Mexico, one of the most dangerous country’s in the world, must eradicate this problem now. Also, stop the MARCH to U.S.” –Donald […]

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4/28/2019

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Will be interviewed by @MariaBartiromo on @FoxNews at 10:00 AM. Talking about the Southern Border and how the Dems MUST act fast to change our pathetic immigration laws. Will be tough, watch!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 28, 2019 7:59 am […]

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4/25/2019

BORDER/DHS/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The new Department of Homeland Security Request for Assistance for additional US troops and other logistical support on the southern border has been sent to the Pentagon but has yet to be signed by acting Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan, according to two US defense officials. The request arrived late Wednesday [4-24-19] […]

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4/25/2019

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration and the plaintiffs in an ongoing family separation class action lawsuit appear to have agreed Thursday [4-25-19] on how the government will identify potentially thousands of additional immigrant families US authorities separated at the southern border, setting up a new phase in the case. The two sides had previously […]

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4/25/2019

BORDER/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Border Control Agents have done an incredible job under very adverse conditions. I am very proud to have increased their salaries because of the great job they do. Nobody deserves it more. THANK YOU and keep up the outstanding work! https://t.co/ljy3hZOgfL” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 25, 2019 1:09 pm […]

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4/24/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/JARED KUSHNER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House adviser Jared Kushner’s proposal to reform the US legal immigration system will be broken into two parts: one focused on border security and the other on legal immigration, according to a senior administration official. The first part of the proposal deals with border security. This would include constructing physical barriers […]

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4/24/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can anyone comprehend what a GREAT job Border Patrol and Law Enforcement is doing on our Southern Border. So far this year they have APPREHENDED 418,000 plus illegal immigrants, way up from last year. Mexico is doing very little for us. DEMS IN CONGRESS MUST ACT NOW!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 24, […]

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4/24/2019

BORDER/MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border. Better not happen again! We are now sending ARMED SOLDIERS to the Border. Mexico is not doing nearly enough in apprehending & returning!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 24, 2019 7:00 am […]

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4/24/2019

BORDER/MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A very big Caravan of over 20,000 people started up through Mexico. It has been reduced in size by Mexico but is still coming. Mexico must apprehend the remainder or we will be forced to close that section of the Border & call up the Military. The Coyotes & Cartels have weapons!” […]

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4/23/2019

BORDER/COURTS/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The House of Representatives has asked a federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s plan to build a border wall using Defense Department funds. On Tuesday [4-23-19], House lawyers requested that U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden issue a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s plan to spend about $6 […]

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4/17/2019

BORDER/COURTS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Migrants who say they face persecution or torture if they return to their countries could be jailed indefinitely in the USA under the Trump administration’s latest effort to stem the surge of asylum seekers arriving at the border.  Attorney General William Barr, who oversees immigration courts, directed judges Tuesday [4-16-19] to deny bond hearings for […]

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4/17/2019

BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats in Congress must return from their Vacations and change the Immigration Laws, or the Border, despite the great job being done by Border Patrol, will only get worse. Big sections of Wall now being built!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2019 6:45 am […]

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4/16/2019

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee requested information Tuesday [4-16-19] related to President Donald Trump’s reported offer to pardon a top border official if he acted illegally to block asylum seekers. Multiple media outlets reported Friday [4-12-19] that Trump earlier this month told Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan he’d […]

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4/15/2019

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top House Democrats are launching an investigation into President Donald Trump’s contentious proposal to release undocumented immigrants detained at the border into so-called sanctuary cities. The leaders of the House Judiciary Committee, House Oversight Committee and House Homeland Security Committee wrote to senior White House officials on Monday [4-15-19] seeking emails […]

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4/15/2019

BORDER/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mark Morgan, President Obama’s Border Patrol Chief, gave the following message to me: ‘President Trump, stay the course.’ I agree, and believe it or not, we are making great progress with a system that has been broken for many years!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 15, 2019 10:33 am […]

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4/13/2019

BORDER/DHS/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I never offered Pardons to Homeland Security Officials, never ordered anyone to close our Southern Border (although I have the absolute right to do so, and may if Mexico does not apprehend the illegals coming to our Border), and am not ‘frustrated.’ It is all Fake & Corrupt News!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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4/12/2019

BORDER/COURTS/DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump last week privately urged Kevin McAleenan, the border enforcement official he was about to name as acting secretary of homeland security, to close the southwestern border to migrants despite having just said publicly that he was delaying a decision on the step for a year, according to three people briefed […]

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4/12/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A myriad of logistical and legal obstacles await President Donald Trump if he follows through on his threat to place migrants arriving at the border into so-called sanctuary cities, a move apparently designed to punish Democrats for refusing to support his immigration policies. Not only is the idea impractical and a […]

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4/12/2019

BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump reportedly offered to pardon Kevin McAleenan, the acting Homeland Security secretary, if he violated the law and was arrested for blocking entry into the U.S. along the southern border, CNN and The New York Times reported.  The news outlets, quoting anonymous administration officials, reported that the conversation happened last week when […]

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4/12/2019

BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even the Democrats now say that our Southern Border is a Crisis and a National Emergency. Hopefully, we will not be getting any more BAD (outrageous) court decisions!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2019 9:19 am […]

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4/11/2019

BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump says he’s not looking to reinstate the much-criticized practice of separating migrant families at the border with Mexico. But he says many more migrants are streaming toward the U.S. through Mexico because the practice is no longer in place. Says Trump: ‘I’m the one that stopped it.’ He claims […]

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4/10/2019

BORDER/INFRASTRUCTURE/SECRETARY OF STATE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including Article II of the Constitution, which gives the President authority over foreign affairs and the authority to seek the opinions of principal officers, it is hereby ordered as follows… […]

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4/9/2019

BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Everybody is now acknowledging that, right from the time I announced my run for President, I was 100% correct on the Border. Remember the heat I took? Democrats should now get rid of the loopholes. The Border is being fixed. Mexico will not let people through!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 9, 2019 […]

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4/9/2019

BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Kirstjen Nielsen’s image makeover has already begun — but it may be a hard sell. Just days after she announced plans to resign as Homeland Security secretary, Nielsen and her allies are working to rehabilitate her reputation, arguing that she’s not the heartless villain depicted by liberal critics already pressuring big […]

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4/9/2019

BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-9-19] claimed that he’s not looking to revive his controversial family separation policy and pushed back against the idea that he’s purging the Department of Homeland Security’s leadership…Even while he denied that he was interested in reinstating the practice, which he brought to a halt last year […]

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4/9/2019

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-9-19] said he was not reviving a policy of separating children from parents who had illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, one day after media reports that his administration was considering putting it back in place. ‘We’re not looking to do that,’ Trump told reporters before a meeting […]

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4/8/2019

BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s congressional allies are alarmed by his purge at the Department of Homeland Security — urging him not to fire more top officials and warning him how hard it will be to solve twin crises at the border and the federal agencies overseeing immigration policy. The president’s frantic four […]

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4/7/2019

BORDER/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Mexico must apprehend all illegals and not let them make the long march up to the United States, or we will have no other choice than to Close the Border and/or institute Tariffs. Our Country is FULL!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 7, 2019 8:03 pm […]

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4/7/2019

BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More apprehensions (captures) at the Southern Border than in many years. Border Patrol amazing! Country is FULL! System has been broken for many years. Democrats in Congress must agree to fix loopholes – No Open Borders (Crimes & Drugs). Will Close Southern Border If necessary…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 7, 2019 7:45 […]

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4/6/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….it’s powerful common sense Immigration Laws to stop illegals from coming through Mexico into the U.S., and removing them back to their country of origin. Until Mexico cleans up this ridiculous & massive migration, we will be focusing on Border Security, not Ports of Entry….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 6, 2019 6:36 […]

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4/6/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have redeployed 750 agents at the Southern Border’s specific Ports of Entry in order to help with the large scale surge of illegal migrants trying to make their way into the United States. This will cause traffic & commercial delays until such time as Mexico is able to use…” –Donald Trump, […]

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4/5/2019

BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The House sued members of President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday [4-5-19] over his emergency declaration to force funding for a border wall. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., asserts Trump’s emergency acts in direct disregard of Congress’ will and disputes the president’s ability to access certain […]

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4/5/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “In a press gaggle before heading off to California to boast of his new-but-not-new wall on Friday [4-5-19] President Donald Trump said that Mexico had recently increased its apprehension of migrants in response to his threat of shutting down the US southern border…During an April 4 radio interview, Tonatiuh Guillén, commissioner of […]

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4/5/2019

BORDER/CALIFORNIA/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump traveled to this small border town two hours east of San Diego on Friday [4-5-19] to highlight what he and his aides say is an out-of-control crisis caused by a surge of Central American families who have overwhelmed law enforcement facilities at the border. Just a day after retreating from […]

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4/5/2019

BORDER/MIKE PENCE/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s announcement Thursday [4-4-19] that he would be willing to sideline a new trilateral trade pact with Canada and Mexico — a move that would allow him to impose the auto tariffs he has been threatening to unveil — couldn’t have come at a worse time for Mike […]

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4/5/2019

BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Scavino45: ?Happening Now: President @realDonaldTrump at the Southern Border with the great men and women who protect our country 24/7…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 5, 2019 6:08 pm […]

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4/5/2019

BORDER/CALIFORNIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Will soon be landing in Calexico, California to look at a portion of the new WALL being built on our Southern Border. Within two years we will have close to 400 miles built or under construction & keeping our Country SAFE – not easy when the Dems are always fighting to stop […]

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4/5/2019

AUTO INDUSTRY/BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump walked back his threat to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday [4-4-19], letting Mexico off with a ‘one-year warning,’ POLITICO’s Caitlin Oprysko reports. ‘The only thing frankly better, but less drastic than closing the border, is to tariff the cars coming in,’ the president told reporters at the […]

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4/5/2019

BORDER/DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….This will supersede USMCA. Likewise I am looking at an economic penalty for the 500 Billion Dollars in illegal DRUGS that are shipped and smuggled through Mexico and across our Southern Border. Over 100,00 Americans die each year, sooo many families destroyed!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 5, 2019 8:19 am […]

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4/5/2019

BORDER/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Friday [4-5-19] he is considering an economic penalty apart from tariffs to counter the smuggling of drugs from Mexico across the southern U.S. border. ‘Likewise I am looking at an economic penalty for the 500 Billion Dollars in illegal DRUGS that are shipped and smuggled through Mexico […]

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4/4/2019

BORDER/DHS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said on Thursday [4-4-19] that the agency is in ‘disaster response’ as a result of a steep uptick of migrants at the southern border…Administration officials have been sounding the alarm over the increase in migrants at the southern border, underscoring the change in demographics as one […]

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4/4/2019

AUTO INDUSTRY/BORDER/DRUGS/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Days after threatening to close the U.S. border with Mexico, President Donald Trump suggested Thursday [4-4-19] that his administration would slap tariffs on autos long before it considered sealing the nation off from its southern neighbor. ‘I don’t think we’ll ever have to close the border,’ Trump said in the Oval Office.  Trump’s […]

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4/4/2019

BORDER/HOUSE OF REPS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives will join a growing list of organizations mounting legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration on the border, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday [4-4-19]. The lawsuit was approved with a 3-2 vote along party lines by the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group. The […]

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