Browsing: Border Security

President Biden’s reelection campaign is criticizing former President Trump with a new digital ad on the anniversary of his administration’s family separation policy. The 50-second ad is called “Ripped Apart” and is aimed at Latino voters across battleground states, according to the campaign. It features images of the children at the border and quotes from Trump about…

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Americans have “every right to be angry” about a border security bill not being a part of foreign aid legislation making its way through Congress this week. “I believe the American people have every right to be pretty angry with Congress as a whole, and both sides tonight,” Mace said…

Most Americans in a new survey said they support the Biden administration hiring more border patrol agents and immigration judges as migrant surges persist at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Associated Press-NORC Center survey, released Friday, found that the majority of the public agrees with policy ideas related to immigration and security at the southern border,…

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) met Thursday to discuss border security legislation. “During the meeting, Governor Abbott told Speaker Johnson that the border crisis is both unacceptable and avoidable, urging the Speaker to pass border security legislation that will help stop illegal crossings between ports of entry along the…

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), 17 other Senate Democrats and an independent sent a letter to President Biden Tuesday asking his administration “take all available action” to speed up the process for granting lawful status to migrants who have come to the country illegally. The senators urged Biden to swiftly provide administrative “relief” to…

More than 12 House Democrats joined Republicans in endorsing a statement that criticized President Biden's border policy on Tuesday, increasing pressure on the president to focus on a crucial 2024 campaign issue. Led by Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas), the measure accuses Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of creating “the…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other Republicans criticized President Biden on Sunday for retracting remarks he made during his State of the Union address, referring to a man accused of murder as an “illegal.” The man, accused of killing university student Laken Riley in Georgia, is a migrant from Venezuela who was not authorized to be in the U.S. The incident has become a…

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said Americans are “frustrated” at the situation on the border after two National Guardsmen and a Border Patrol agent died in a helicopter crash flying over the southern border of Texas. “This is part where I think a lot of Americans are frustrated. You know, just a few days ago, we had Americans…

The White House rebuked Sen. Katie Britt for sharing false information during her response to President Biden's State of the Union address, as multiple news organizations fact-checked her statement about a sexually abused migrant, and urged her to support bipartisan border legislation.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) recent remarks that President Biden does not need legislation to enforce new policies at the border. “He is completely incorrect, completely incorrect. And in fact, former President Trump attempted to close the border and…