BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RUSH LIMBAUGH ALERTED his audience on Thursday 12/20/18] that President Donald Trump ‘has gotten word to me that he is either getting funding for the border or he’s shutting the whole thing down.’ Limbaugh, like Ann Coulter, Breitbart and several Fox News hosts and guests, were uncharacteristically critical of Trump for wavering […]
Category: Border
12/19/2018
BORDER/GOP/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Rattled by accusations he was caving on his promised border wall, President Donald Trump instead bowed to a conservative backlash. After signaling earlier in the week that he was backing off a government shutdown threat, Trump rapidly changed course on Thursday [12-20-18], informing House Republican leaders that he would not sign a […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge in San Francisco has extended his decision blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Judge Jon Tigar ruled Wednesday to keep the ban on hold pending the outcome of a lawsuit challenging it. The case could take […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump’s demand for border wall funds hurled the federal government closer to a shutdown as House Republicans approved a package Thursday [12-20-18] with his $5.7 billion request that is almost certain to be rejected by the Senate. The White House said Trump will not travel to Florida on Friday [12-21-18] […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [12-19-18] said the U.S. military will construct his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, insisting that it will be built ‘one way or the other’ while seemingly walking back threats to shut down the government if Congress fails to appropriate for the wall by the end of […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mexico is paying (indirectly) for the Wall through the new USMCA, the replacement for NAFTA! Far more money coming to the U.S. Because of the tremendous dangers at the Border, including large scale criminal and drug inflow, the United States Military will build the Wall!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 19, 2018 8:43 […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/DEMS/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “In our Country, so much money has been poured down the drain, for so many years, but when it comes to Border Security and the Military, the Democrats fight to the death. We won on the Military, which is being completely rebuilt. One way or the other, we will win on the […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/DEMS/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “In our Country, so much money has been poured down the drain, for so many years, but the Democrats fight us like cats and dogs when it comes to spending on Boarder Security (including a Wall) and the Military. We won on the Military, it is being completely rebuilt. We will win…” […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/POLLS/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “If parts of the federal government shut down later this week, most voters will blame President Donald Trump and Republicans over Democratic minorities in Congress, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. The holiday brinkmanship in Washington comes as the government must approve a series of spending bills to stay open past […]
12/18/2018
BORDER/BUDGET/GOVERNMENT/MITCH MCCONNELL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mitch McConnell thinks he’s gotten President Donald Trump to back off his shutdown threat. And it’s looking increasingly likely to come with a short-term punt. The Senate majority leader emerged from a lengthy party lunch after a flurry of mixed signals from the White House to declare there will be no […]
12/18/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump and leaders in Congress appear to be pulling back from a government shutdown over his $5 billion request for border wall funds. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders indicates that Trump doesn’t want to shut down the government, though just last week he said he’d be ‘proud’ to […]
12/17/2018
BORDER/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump is testing the patience of the GOP. Increasingly, what he thinks is best for himself and his base — like shutting down the federal government over his demands for a border wall — is not necessarily what is in the long- or short-term interest of his party. Until now, […]
12/17/2018
BORDER/DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched a new webpage Wednesday titled ‘Walls Work.’ The four-page document stresses that, under President Donald Trump, federal officials are committed to ‘building wall and building wall quickly.’ It promises that DHS will be able to erect an additional 330 miles of barrier if Congress approves […]
12/17/2018
BORDER/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We all make typos, but, fairly or not, President Donald Trump’s textual slipups draw more attention than most. That is especially true when he stumbles writing about one of his defining political issues: border security. Or, as the president called it in a tweet on Monday [12-17-18], ‘Boarder Security’…Trump deleted the […]
12/17/2018
BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Anytime you hear a Democrat saying that you can have good Border Security without a Wall, write them off as just another politician following the party line. Time for us to save billions of dollars a year and have, at the same time, far greater safety and control!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December […]
12/17/2018
BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Anytime you hear a Democrat saying that you can have good Boarder Security without a Wall, write them off as just another politician following the party line. Time for us to save billions of dollars a year and have, at the same time, far greater safety and control!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December […]
12/16/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats policy of Child Seperation on the Border during the Obama Administration was far worse than the way we handle it now. Remember the 2014 picture of children in cages – the Obama years. However, if you don’t separate, FAR more people will come. Smugglers use the kids!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
12/14/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump is mulling the prospect of making a counter-offer to Democratic leaders that would prevent a partial government shutdown and kick the border wall fight into next year, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations. While the specifics of that offer are unclear, Republicans on Capitol Hill are increasingly […]
12/13/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump has begun to tie his seemingly abandoned campaign promise that Mexico will pay for the construction of a wall on the U.S. border to the newly negotiated trade pact that would replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. In a Thursday [12-13-18] tweet, Trump, using dubious logic, declared that […]
12/13/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “I often stated, ‘One way or the other, Mexico is going to pay for the Wall.’ This has never changed. Our new deal with Mexico (and Canada), the USMCA, is so much better than the old, very costly & anti-USA NAFTA deal, that just by the money we save, MEXICO IS PAYING […]
12/13/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump has been vague on how Mexico would pay for his border wall and has suggested various ways this could happen — including imposing fees on visas and border crossings from Mexico or paying through ‘reimbursement.’ On Tuesday [12-11-18], he demanded the money from congressional appropriations. Then, on Thursday [12-13-18] […]
12/12/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Tuesday [12-11-18] that U.S. authorities had ‘caught 10 terrorists,’ citing it as a reason for why the United States should build a wall on its Mexican border, but four government sources said there was no recent evidence of terrorism suspects being caught along the border. A senior […]
12/12/2018
BORDER/DEMS/FRANCE/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [12-12-18] said he would move to fortify U.S. borders ‘even more’ in the wake of an attack in France that left three dead and more than a dozen wounded, criticizing Democratic congressional leaders for pushing back on his requests for money to build a proposed border wall […]
12/12/2018
BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/FRANCE/NANCY PELOSI/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Another very bad terror attack in France. We are going to strengthen our borders even more. Chuck and Nancy must give us the votes to get additional Border Security!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 12, 2018 7:34 am […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/CENTRAL AMERICA/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump and Mexico’s top immigration officials painted sharply different pictures Tuesday [12-11-18] of the large groups of Central American migrants at the border. On Twitter and during a live televised meeting in the Oval Office, Trump said migrants in the so-called caravan he’d been warning about for weeks […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Some of the active-duty troops who President Donald Trump ordered to help secure the southern border have begun departing and thousands of them could be home by the end of the month, according to a US defense official. The official said the exact number of troops to stay on the border after […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/BUDGET/CHUCK SCHUMER/DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump just made it nearly impossible for Republicans to blame Democrats for an increasingly likely partial government shutdown. But they’re going to try anyway. House Republicans are considering passing a stopgap spending bill that provides $5 billion for Trump’s border wall, essentially daring Senate Democrats to accept it […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi privately questioned President Donald Trump’s ‘manhood’ after a contentious meeting Tuesday [12-11-18] about funding his wall at the southern border…Pelosi, in a feisty mood after the heated exchange with the President, also compared the President to a skunk…The press-filled Oval Office meeting had been slated […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “‘This has spiraled downward,’ Nancy Pelosi declared. That turned out to be an understatement. For 17 awkward and tense minutes in the Oval Office on Tuesday [12-11-18], President Donald Trump and his Democratic adversaries — Pelosi, the expected incoming House speaker, and Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader — clashed […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday [12-11-18] to shut down the government over his demand for a multi-billion dollar border wall during a remarkable televised clash with the top House and Senate Democrats in the Oval Office. Trump traded taunts and threats with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy […]
BORDER/DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Nancy Pelosi was on fire with her fellow Democrats. Minutes after a very public showdown with Donald Trump on Tuesday [12-11-18] over his border wall with Mexico, the House minority leader returned to the Capitol and railed against the president in a private meeting with her colleagues…Congressional Democrats are feeling smug […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/BUDGET/CHUCK SCHUMER/IMMIGRATION/NANCY PELOSI/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump clashed sharply with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in a remarkable Oval Office meeting before reporters Tuesday [12-11-18], with the president threatening to shut down the government and the Democrats warning him they will not bend. In a pitched partisan argument televised for all to see, the […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “….People do not yet realize how much of the Wall, including really effective renovation, has already been built. If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how important it is!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 11, […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “….however, for strictly political reasons and because they have been pulled so far left, do NOT want Border Security. They want Open Borders for anyone to come in. This brings large scale crime and disease. Our Southern Border is now Secure and will remain that way…….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 11, 2018 […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/ICE/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “…..Ice, Border Patrol and our Military have done a FANTASTIC job of securing our Southern Border. A Great Wall would be, however, a far easier & less expensive solution. We have already built large new sections & fully renovated others, making them like new. The Democrats,…..” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 11, 2018 […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Despite the large Caravans that WERE forming and heading to our Country, people have not been able to get through our newly built Walls, makeshift Walls & Fences, or Border Patrol Officers & Military. They are now staying in Mexico or going back to their original countries…….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 11, […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/NANCY PELOSI/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “It was Round 1: Nancy Pelosi vs. President Trump. The likely new House speaker arrived at the White House on Tuesday [12-11-18] afternoon, ready to take on the president. The subject was a potential government shutdown, and funding for Mr. Trump’s beloved wall. What followed was a remarkable televised exchange […]
12/11/2018
BORDER/BUDGET/CHUCK SCHUMER/DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “U.S. President Donald Trump openly fought with the top two Democratic lawmakers in the Oval Office on Tuesday [12-11-18] about government funding, as disagreements over a U.S.-Mexico border wall prompted Trump repeatedly to threaten a late December government shutdown. Trump’s demand for billions of dollars to build the southwest border […]
12/10/2018
BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Donald Trump’s meeting Tuesday [12-11-18] with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer may go a long way toward determining whether the government enters a partial shutdown before Christmas. But as Democrats seriously re-engage with Trump for the first time in nearly a year, their broad distrust of the president has expectations […]
12/6/2018
ARIZONA/BORDER/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Arizona, together with our Military and Border Patrol, is bracing for a massive surge at a NON-WALLED area. WE WILL NOT LET THEM THROUGH. Big danger. Nancy and Chuck must approve Boarder Security and the Wall!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 6, 2018 10:15 pm […]
12/6/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The number of people arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border in November rose to the highest monthly level of the Trump presidency, according to preliminary statistics obtained by POLITICO. Border Patrol arrested 51,856 migrants in November — a 78 percent increase over the same month a year earlier. Families made up roughly half […]
12/6/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Congress steered clear of a shutdown Thursday [12-6-18], but the parties are no closer to resolving the battle over President Donald Trump’s wall as Democratic leaders prepare to meet with Trump next week. Democrats are urging Republicans to sidestep a Christmastime fight over Trump’s wall and simply extend current border security funding […]
12/6/2018
BORDER/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democrats and Republicans can’t even agree on the definition of a border wall — let alone the project itself — and the rift could lead to a partial government shutdown later this month. Senators came to a bipartisan agreement this summer to provide $1.6 billion for 65 miles of a beefed-up barrier […]
12/4/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Could somebody please explain to the Democrats (we need their votes) that our Country losses 250 Billion Dollars a year on illegal immigration, not including the terrible drug flow. Top Border Security, including a Wall, is $25 Billion. Pays for itself in two months. Get it done!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 4, […]
12/3/2018
BORDER/DEMS/DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We would save Billions of Dollars if the Democrats would give us the votes to build the Wall. Either way, people will NOT be allowed into our Country illegally! We will close the entire Southern Border if necessary. Also, STOP THE DRUGS!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 3, 2018 8:45 am […]
11/30/2018
BORDER/CRIME/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sometimes two campaign promises can conflict. This happened after the Trump administration poured more resources into prosecuting migrants for crossing the Southwest border earlier in the year. What followed was a significant slowdown in the pursuit of drug traffickers, another key administration priority. The decline turned around after Trump aides dispatched more […]
11/29/2018
BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/DHS/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) slammed President Donald Trump Thursday [11-29-18] for holding up spending talks and offered his own hard line as a fight over Trump’s border wall heats up. Schumer said Trump could either accept a bipartisan bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security or simply extend […]
11/28/2018
BORDER/CALIFORNIA/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “California officials on both sides of the aisle are warning that President Trump’s repeated vows to close the border with Mexico ‘for a long time’ — to thwart what he claims are security threats posed by refugee caravans — will have disastrous long-term economic and human impacts on the state. Trump on […]
11/28/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @The_Trump_Train: Will CNN ever ask Border Patrol agents how they felt having large rocks chucked at them by criminal illegals?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 28, 2018 8:41 am […]
11/28/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump told House Republican leaders on Tuesday [11-27-18] that Congress must accede to his demand to include $5 billion for a southern border wall in a hefty year-end spending bill, intensifying a fight over one of his signature campaign promises that could lead to a partial government shutdown next week. With […]
11/27/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump’s renewed demand for U.S. taxpayer funding of his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall was threatening again on Tuesday [11-27-18] to bring on a budget standoff and a partial government shutdown, leaving Congress just 11 days to act. With time running short, Trump and Republican leaders of the U.S. House of […]
11/27/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway claimed Tuesday [11-27-18] that President Donald Trump’s warnings of violent migrants making their way toward the U.S. were vindicated over the weekend by clashes at the Mexican border, even though no U.S. law enforcement officers were seriously injured amid efforts to block crowds of migrants […]
11/23/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A record number of unaccompanied immigrant children, about 14,000, are currently in US custody, a Health and Human Services spokesman said Friday [11-23-18]. The spokesman, Mark Weber, said the additional requirements put in place by the Trump administration to “reduce risk and increase safety” for immigrant children contributed to the high number…Last […]
11/26/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. and Mexico forged a tentative agreement to keep asylum seekers in Mexico while their applications are pending, yours truly reported over the weekend — a departure from current U.S. procedure, which allows those seeking asylum to remain in the U.S. until their case is reviewed by an immigration judge. The […]
11/26/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [11-26-18] demanded that Mexico deport the caravans of asylum-seeking migrants pressing up against the U.S. border ‘anyway you want,’ threatening to close off the U.S. border “permanently if need be’…Chaos broke out at the U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana, Mexico, over the weekend as U.S. authorities deployed tear […]
11/26/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries. Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A. We will close the Border permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL!” […]
11/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump suggested Monday [11-26-18] that some adults had ‘grabbed’ children at the Southwestern border to better their chances of entering the US while confronting federal agents during an incident Sunday [11-25-18] that resulted in the use of tear gas. Trump — speaking at a roundtable event in Biloxi, Mississippi — […]
11/25/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….children from parents, as did Bush etc., because that is the policy and law. I tried to keep them together but the problem is, when you do that, vast numbers of additional people storm the Border. So with Obama seperation is fine, but with Trump it’s not. Fake 60 Minutes!” -Donald Trump, […]
11/25/2018
BORDER CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “.@60Minutes did a phony story about child separation when they know we had the exact same policy as the Obama Administration. In fact a picture of children in jails was used by other Fake Media to show how bad (cruel) we are, but it was in 2014 during O years. Obama […]
11/25/2018
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “General Anthony Tata: ‘President Trump is a man of his word & he said he was going to be tough on the Border, and he is tough on the Border. He has rightfully strengthened the Border in the face of an unprecedented threat. It’s the right move by President Trump.’ Thanks […]
11/25/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday [11-25-18] criticized President Donald Trump for having ‘gut-punched’ Congress in its efforts to legislate fixes to America’s immigration system, and said lawmakers are prepared to boost federal funding for border security in exchange for certain reform measures…The senator’s remarks followed a tweet by Trump earlier in […]
11/25/2018
BORDER/IMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Would be very SMART if Mexico would stop the Caravans long before they get to our Southern Border, or if originating countries would not let them form (it is a way they get certain people out of their country and dump in U.S. No longer). Dems created this problem. No crossings!” -Donald […]
11/24/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….All will stay in Mexico. If for any reason it becomes necessary, we will CLOSE our Southern Border. There is no way that the United States will, after decades of abuse, put up with this costly and dangerous situation anymore!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 24, 2018 6:56 pm […]
11/24/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Migrants at the Southern Border will not be allowed into the United States until their claims are individually approved in court. We only will allow those who come into our Country legally. Other than that our very strong policy is Catch and Detain. No ‘Releasing’ into the U.S…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November […]
11/23/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/CRIME/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump was back at his West Palm Beach golf course on another sunny Florida day. Trump began his Friday [11-23-18] on Twitter, saying Democrats and Republicans ‘MUST come together, finally, with a major Border Security package, which will include funding for the Wall.’ He says it’s ‘time for action,’ even […]
11/23/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Incoming Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will work with the Trump administration to keep asylum-seekers out of the U.S. while their applications are pending in court, according to a Mexican official with knowledge of the talks. The tentative agreement is a departure from current U.S. procedure, which allows those seeking asylum […]
11/23/2018
BORDER/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: The Fake News is showing old footage of people climbing over our Ocean Area Fence. This is what it really looks like -…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 23, 2018 6:49 pm […]
11/23/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump warned Thursday [11-22-18] that someone – a group of judges or Congress – must step in to stop what he called ‘horrible decisions’ by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that blocked several of his border and immigration orders…His remarks at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, […]
11/23/2018
BORDER/DEMS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Republicans and Democrats MUST come together, finally, with a major Border Security package, which will include funding for the Wall. After 40 years of talk, it is finally time for action. Fix the Border, for once and for all, NOW!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 23, 2018 7:41 am […]
11/22/2018
BORDER/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Incensed by a ruling against his migrant asylum policy, President Donald Trump demanded ‘some common sense’ from America’s judges and directed his ire at a liberal-leaning appeals court. He professed respect for Chief Justice John Roberts, with whom he is engaged in a startling public dispute over the independence of the judiciary, […]
11/21/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/JAMES MATTIS/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House has authorized active-duty military troops stationed along the southwest border to use lethal force, if necessary, a significant escalation of the support role they had been tasked with that may run afoul of a 140-year-old law that generally bars the military from operating within U.S. boundaries. White House […]
11/21/2018
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’Thank you to President Trump on the Border. No American President has ever done this before.’ Hector Garza, National Border Patrol Council” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 21, 2018 4:31 pm […]
11/21/2018
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..are so many opposing view (on Border and Safety) cases filed there, and why are a vast number of those cases overturned. Please study the numbers, they are shocking. We need protection and security – these rulings are making our country unsafe! Very dangerous and unwise!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 21, 2018 […]
11/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Corporate lawyers at Paul Weiss, a prestigious Manhattan law firm, often spend their days scouring the fine print of client documents and government regulations. But for the past few months, they have been on a different search. In the firm’s Midtown offices, about 75 lawyers have been trying to find more than […]
11/20/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A few hundred self-avowed nationalists waving flags at a demonstration. A public official donning the signature red hat with white embroidered letters. An activist going on Fox News to warn of an ‘invasion.’ This isn’t Trump country. It’s Tijuana, Mexico, where more than 6,000 asylum-seekers who have been traveling in a caravan […]
11/20/2018
BORDER/DEFENSE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has approved a memorandum that grants new authority to US troops on the Southwest border to protect Customs and Border Protection personnel from migrants if they engage in violence, according to the Pentagon. Department of Defense spokesperson Lt. Col. Michelle Baldanza confirmed to CNN that the Pentagon had received […]
11/20/2018
BORDER/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Late Monday [11-19-18] night a San Francisco federal district court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s moves earlier this month to deny asylum to migrants who cross the border illegally. ‘Whatever the scope of the President’s authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden,’ […]
11/20/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump’s move to restrict asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, dealing another blow to the administration’s immigration agenda. Judge Jon Tigar’s ruling suspends implementation of a fast-track regulation and presidential proclamation issued Nov. 9 that barred migrants who cross the border between ports of entry from seeking asylum. The order will remain in […]
11/19/2018
BORDER/CENTRAL AMERICA/IMMIGRATION/REFUGEES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s efforts to dramatically cut asylum applications were challenged in two federal court hearings on Monday [11-19-18], and the rulings by each judge will ultimately determine how many members of the migrant caravan will be able to enter the U.S. Hundreds of the Central American caravan members have already […]
11/19/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/REFUGEES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The head of the Trump administration’s Office of Refugee Resettlement, which was criticized for its role overseeing shelters for unaccompanied immigrant minors, is leaving his post. The Department of Health and Human Services says Scott Lloyd will move to a new role at the Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives. Lloyd says […]
11/19/2018
BORDER/CENTRAL AMERICA/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Monday [11-19-18] ordered the Trump administration to resume accepting asylum claims from migrants no matter where or how they entered the United States, dealing at least a temporary setback to the president’s attempt to clamp down on a huge wave of Central Americans crossing the border. Judge […]
11/18/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Catch and Release is an obsolete term. It is now Catch and Detain. Illegal Immigrants trying to come into the U.S.A., often proudly flying the flag of their nation as they ask for U.S. Asylum, will be detained or turned away. Dems must approve Border Security & Wall NOW!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
11/18/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Reps.-elect Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) are already going head-to-head over President Donald Trump’s decision to send troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, giving a preview of how a new class of lawmakers will grapple over the issue next year. During a panel discussion CBS was to air Sunday [11-18-18] on […]
11/16/2018
BORDER/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [11-16-18] night returned to the issue of the migrant caravan, a topic he placed intense focus on before the midterm elections but since then has remained largely silent about. Before Friday night, Trump had not written about the caravan on Twitter since before the midterm elections. At […]
11/16/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Isn’t it ironic that large Caravans of people are marching to our border wanting U.S.A. asylum because they are fearful of being in their country – yet they are proudly waving….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 16, 2018 7:43 pm […]
11/16/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….their country’s flag. Can this be possible? Yes, because it is all a BIG CON, and the American taxpayer is paying for it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 16, 2018 7:43 pm […]
11/12/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Immigration advocates who filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration’s asylum ban are waiting for the court’s first move, which is expected on Tuesday [11-13-18]. President Donald Trump on Friday [11-9-18] signed a proclamation setting into motion a ban on most asylum claims for immigrants who cross the US-Mexico border illegally. […]
11/9/2018
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Presidential Proclamation Addressing Mass Migration Through the Southern Border of the United States’ https://t.co/9blzn1XGyS“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 9:54 am […]
11/9/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump proclaimed on Friday [11-9-18] that the illegal entry of immigrants across the southern border of the United States was detrimental to the national interest, spurring tough changes that will deny asylum to all migrants who do not enter through official border crossings. The proclamation, issued just moments before Mr. Trump […]
11/8/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration unveiled new rules on Thursday [11-8-18] to sharply limit migrant asylum claims by barring individuals who cross the U.S. southern border illegally from seeking asylum. Immigrant advocates denounced the move, saying it violated existing U.S. law that allows people fleeing persecution and violence in their home countries to apply […]
11/7/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/DREAMERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [11-7-18] said he hopes he can work with Congress on immigration to fund his border wall, as well as possibly addressing the thousands of young immigrants living in the United States without legal status. Speaking to reporters at the White House after Tuesday’s [11-6-18] congressional elections, […]
11/1/2018
BORDER/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s closing argument is now clear: Build tent cities for migrants. End birthright citizenship. Fear the caravan. Send active-duty troops to the border. Refuse asylum. Immigration has been the animating issue of the Trump presidency, and now — with the possibility that Republicans could face significant losses in the midterm elections […]
10/31/2018
BORDER/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump claimed that up to 15,000 US troops could be sent to the border to deal with the group of approximately 3,500 migrants heading toward the US through Mexico. The migrants, who are more than 800 miles away from the US, are weeks away from arriving at the border, where […]
10/31/2018
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [10-31-18] the United States could send as many as 15,000 troops to the border with Mexico, as he hardens his stance against a caravan of migrants fleeing violence and poverty in Central America. The numbers cited by Trump are significantly higher than defense officials have […]
10/31/2018
BORDER/CITIZENSHIP/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Ryan should be focusing on holding the Majority rather than giving his opinions on Birthright Citizenship, something he knows nothing about! Our new Republican Majority will work on this, Closing the Immigration Loopholes and Securing our Border!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 31, 2018 11:43 am […]
10/31/2018
BORDER/CRIME/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Harry Reid was right in 1993, before he and the Democrats went insane and started with the Open Borders (which brings massive Crime) ‘stuff.’ Don’t forget the nasty term Anchor Babies. I will keep our Country safe. This case will be settled by the United States Supreme Court!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October […]
10/31/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our military is being mobilized at the Southern Border. Many more troops coming. We will NOT let these Caravans, which are also made up of some very bad thugs and gang members, into the U.S. Our Border is sacred, must come in legally. TURN AROUND!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 31, 2018 7:45 […]
10/31/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Caravans are made up of some very tough fighters and people. Fought back hard and viciously against Mexico at Northern Border before breaking through. Mexican soldiers hurt, were unable, or unwilling to stop Caravan. Should stop them before they reach our Border, but won’t!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 31, 2018 7:38 […]
10/30/2018
BORDER/CENTRAL AMERICA/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Already, President Trump has sent 1,000 military forces to the Southwest border in a decision he said will protect Americans from a caravan of migrants coming from Central America. He has pledged to deploy at least 4,000 more troops by the week’s end, as part of a last-ditch effort to galvanize […]
10/30/2018
BORDER/CITIZENSHIP/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A week before high-stakes midterm elections, President Trump and his allies are zeroing in on immigration in what critics describe as a series of stunts aimed at rallying his base. Recent moves to send more troops to the US-Mexico border, possibly overhaul asylum policy and rethink birthright citizenship are political ploys with […]