In February 2019, President Trump declared a national emergency in order to secure funding for the border wall after Congress awarded only $1.4 billion of the requested $6 billion needed to complete it. Subsequently, the U.S. Department of Defens…
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Apprehensions of illegal aliens along America’s southern border during fiscal 2020 ran well below last year’s total, but the numbers are trending back up. COVID-19 sharply reduced illegal border crossings in April and May. Apprehensions totaled 40,380 …
On October 1, 3,000 Honduran migrants forced their way past police and soldiers as they crossed into Guatemala on their way to the U.S. southern border, but they didn’t make it far. Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei ordered the migrants to be d…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has revealed that 10 miles of border wall is currently being completed per day, setting up the Trump administration to finish its goal of 450 miles of new border wall before the end of the year. Currently, 341 …
It seems as absurd as a scene out of the farcical “Canadian Bacon,” but the image of a lonely northern border outpost can be a cold reality. While bustling ports of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border see rising traffic flows, even in the face of COVID-19 …
In 1996 – five years before the 9/11 attacks – Congress ordered the development and implementation of an entry-exit data system to better track arrivals and departures of international travelers in the U.S. That program was expanded to include biometri…
The administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) diverted more than $4 million from a regional development fund to immigration containment last year, according to a new report from the Associated Press (AP). The diversion of f…
The Trump Administration is seeking to expand biometric data collection for those seeking U.S. citizenship. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed the administration’s plan through the publication of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Se…
The New York Times hasn’t tripped over any prayer rugs in Mexico, leading the integrity-impugned paper to cast doubt on a 2019 Washington Examiner report citing border ranchers in New Mexico who claim to have seen these abandoned religious artifacts. B…
Border apprehensions continued their steady upward trend in July, with more than 40,000 illegal aliens apprehended – up more than 20 percent from June apprehension numbers and more than double those of April. Single adults from Mexico accounted for ne…