Page 21 - Border Enforcement News Today

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesAfter months of howling about the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, Republicans are now considering legislation in Congress that reads, at least in part, like a Republican wish list.It steers $15 billion in new funding to the U.S. Border Patrol and to federal deportation authorities. It implements automatic shutdowns of the border if illegal crossings hit a certain number. And it revives several asylum policies from the Trump administration.For year

Far-right personalities are fantasizing about “civil war” again, amid a standoff between Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the feds over border enforcement. That may seem silly, but unbridgeable differences over immigration truly are driving many big stories of the moment, from that Texas battle to Senate negotiations over a border bill to the House GOP impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. If you want to understand what’s really going on with all these...

President Joe Biden's call for authority to "shut down the border" shows how far the immigration debate has moved to the right.

Texas and the Biden administration are continuing to clash over border enforcement as the U.S. Senate inches closer to a bipartisan immigration deal.

The goal is to expand the president's authority at the border as the state of Texas pushes forward with its own initiatives.

A dizzying week in Washington and Austin has the GOP rallying around Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) as he pledges not to back down in his escalating standoff with the Biden administration over border enforcement, while former President Trump has been working to tank a bipartisan border deal. Abbott and Trump are marshaling Republican broadsides…

Biden said in a statement late Friday that the policies proposed would “be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country.”

Frustrated over border enforcement, Republicans held their second hearing to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The Texas National Guard has seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, and is denying U.S. Border Patrol agents access to the area

The governor touted all his administration is doing to stop border crossings during an interview with a former NRA spokesperson