Steve Bannon, a former advisor to President Donald Trump, was arrested Thursday on fraud charges. The Southern District of New York (SDNY) indicted Bannon and three accomplices for allegedly defrauding donors of a border wall ...
“They’re our ancestors. They’re our remnants of who we are as a people, throughout this whole area. And it’s our obligation, it’s our duty to do what is necessary to protect that.” Construction of President ...
“I want to build the wall, I supported direct appropriations for it and fought for it — but we have to evaluate what this does to the military, what it affects, where and how.” President ...
The federal government has yet to resolve its impasse over appropriations as another government budget deadline nears. Lost amidst the impeachment news swirling in recent weeks was the signing into law on September 27 of ...
Coming off a recent Supreme Court victory over the use of military funds for southern border wall construction, the Defense Department announced plans to divert military funds into border wall projects. The Pentagon announced Wednesday ...
Trump scores a ‘Big VICTORY’ as a Supreme Court decision on border wall funding is split down party lines in his favor. The Supreme Court granted President Trump a significant victory on Friday, ruling that ...
“The policies we have at the border and this militarization, building fences, they didn’t start with Trump. This is a lot of the policies have continued from the Obama administration much earlier… Bush and Clinton.” ...
City leaders issued a cease-and-desist letter after they said proper permits were not issued before the project began. But on Thursday the mayor said the project has been given permission to continue. (By Julian Aguilar, ...
“The Trump administration just ignored bedrock environmental and public health laws to plow a disastrous border wall through protected, spectacular wildlands.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Wednesday that it is waiving 41 ...
Citizen Truth reporter Jenna Mulligan is reporting live from the border as she travels through Arizona, California and Mexico to get a firsthand account of immigration issues at the U.S.-Mexico border. Look for her video ...
Trump’s national emergency declaration at the border is being spun all the way around. (FactCheck.org) Both sides are spinning the facts in response to President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the Southwest border: As ...
New Mexico and now California have now both recalled National Guard troops from the border wall. Only a month into his term, California Governor Gavin Gavin Newsom has stood up to Trump by ordering 260 ...
Republicans and Democrats reached a deal Monday night while President Trump was at a campaign rally in Texas where he told attendees he didn’t even want to hear about the new deal. Monday night Congressional ...
Before we get to the veracity of what Trump said or lack thereof, let’s first address what the man spoke about. Trump’s agenda, at least in principle, was devoted to the areas where members of ...
One of the many reasons President Trump is advocating for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico is because he believes that a border wall will help stop the flow of illicit opioids into ...
The masses of asylum seekers at the U.S. southern border will now have to wait in Mexico for their trial dates. Many of the people in the migrant caravans arriving at the US border are ...
The Democratic Party has a new deal that just might entice President Trump. According to multiple reports, House Democrats are drafting a new offer to bring Republicans and President Trump back to the table and ...
Volunteers for No More Deaths are facing jail time and fines for their attempt to help migrants crossing into the US illegally. Several volunteers are facing prison time for leaving food and water for undocumented migrants ...
Guzmán’s trial is a telenovela-style explainer on why a wall is unlikely to stop the lucrative U.S.-Mexico drug trade. (The Conversation, by Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong) The trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán ...
“I love my country, these are complicated issues” but that regardless of political affiliation, “you’ve gotta believe we can do better,” – Brandon Flowers, lead singer of The Killers. Acclaimed film director Spike Lee joined ...
On Monday, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel vowed to hire a federal employee to work on his show every night until the government shutdown ends. It marked the 17th day of the shutdown, which ...
(FactCheck) On the day he met with congressional leaders to discuss the budget stalemate, President Donald Trump repeated several false and misleading claims about the Southwest border and the wall he wants to build: Trump ...
“It is time to bring a dose of reality to the swamp. If we cannot do our jobs, then we do not deserve to get paid, plain and simple.” As the government shutdown continues on ...
While the capital is locked in a game of cat and mouse, over 800,000 federal workers will have their lives hanging in the balance as they wait for a solution to the government shutdown. The ...
(FactCheck.org, by Robert Farley, Jessica McDonald, Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson and D’Angelo Gore) In a contentious Oval Office meeting, President Donald Trump and the Democratic congressional leaders — Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer — disagreed over funding for a border wall, ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a report detailing the dangers inherent in the proposed U.S.-Mexico wall. Other environmental groups joined with ACLU to condemn the proposed border wall, saying it is politically motivated ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reunited around 1,442 of the 2,551 separated migrant children with their parents in immigration detention by the July 26 deadline, as mandated by a federal judge in ...
The border area between the U.S. and Mexico is home to some of North America’s greatest biodiversity and rich terrain which includes forests, grasslands and salt marshes. The land is home to more than 1,500 ...
More than 50 additional prosecutors and judges have been assigned to work along the US-Mexico border on immigration cases which have surged under President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ zero-tolerance policy for illegal border ...
The kickback scheme was allegedly hashed out over weeknight drinks at a steakhouse in a border county in south Texas. Amid surf and turf and expensive scotch, a Hidalgo County official said he would meet ...
U.S. Customs has chosen 4 contractors to build 30-foot concrete prototypes of the Mexico border wall. (Reveal News, by Patrick Michels and Andrew Becker) President Donald Trump’s border wall came a little bit closer to reality on Thursday, as ...