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WH Press Sec Karine Jean-Pierre spouts more propaganda

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the Biden administration’s response to the border crisis during a press briefing Thursday. When asked about border, Jean-Pierre told reporters, “What Americans should know is that the president has done the work to deal with what we’re seeing at the border since day one.” She also criticized Republicans […]

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Outgoing Gov. Stacks Containers on Border

Work crews have steadily erected hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers topped by razor wire along Arizona’s remote eastern boundary with Mexico in a bold show of border enforcement by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey even as he prepares to leave office. Until protesters slowed, then largely halted the work in recent days, Ducey pressed forward over […]

DEA

Border patrol has seized enough fentanyl to kill US population 8 times over

A memo circulating among Senate Republicans this week details how the fentanyl crisis continues to worsen across U.S. communities as southern border drug seizures and encounters reach record highs. Those who have witnessed activity at the border believe the crisis at the border and the fentanyl crisis are correlated. CBP agents seized an unprecedented 10,500 […]

K.C. Alfred

Illegal immigrants who entered US since Biden took office to cost taxpayers $20+ billion a year

The number of illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. since President Biden took office will cost the U.S. taxpayer over $20 billion each year, according to a new analysis by a hawkish immigration group. The study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which advocates for lower levels of immigration overall, calculates that the […]

Dario Lopez-Mills, Associated Press

15 people on terror watch list nabbed by border patrol in May

​Border Patrol agents nabbed 15 people listed on the FBI’s terror watch list trying to sneak across the US-Mexico border in May — bringing the alarming total since October to 50 amid a record of migrants, according to official figures. The possible terrorists were among the staggering 239,416 migrants encountered at the southern border last […]

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Pressure builds over spiraling border crisis; Is Mayorkas to blame?

A letter sent this week by more than 130 House Republicans that expressed “grave concerns” about Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ suitability for office is the latest instance of Republicans in the chamber ramping up their oversight efforts on the DHS chief amid a spiraling border crisis – a push that has included rumblings of […]