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New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) complained to a high-ranking official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about the seizure of state-legalized marijuana and the lack of Border Patrol agents in her state. The revelation surfaced from a secretly recorded phone conversation that took place on an airplane flight.

White House Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that Republicans who oppose a Biden administration-backed bill on foreign aid and border security are “siding with Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Tehran,” effectively accusing them of treason.

Johnson, in an exclusive interview with Sirius XM “Breitbart News Daily” Tuesday, slammed the McConnell for the recent border bill “debacle.”

The Biden administration is “willfully usurping the law” and governors need to stand in the gap to secure the border, Rep. Andy Ogles said on Breitbart News Daily.

Matt Rosendale pushed for amnesty for illegal aliens in 2018, opposing deportation despite championing border security in 2024.

The House passed a short-term spending extension only hours after the bill cleared the Senate, pushing the next shutdown threat to March.

The Senate advanced another short-term spending bill Thursday afternoon, which passed 77-18 over objections from conservatives.

The House Homeland Security Committee will begin impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on January 10.

The Associated Press (AP) and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research published a poll on Tuesday that found nearly twice as many Americans — almost 40 percent — think foreign policy will be a top issue in 2024, compared to the same poll one year ago.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott endorsed former President Donald Trump in his race to become the Republican nominee for President of the United States.

Former President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott served an early Thanksgiving meal to a host of law enforcement officers and Texas National Guard soldiers serving the border region as part of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. The former president and Abbott are slated to deliver remarks to a crowd of Texas Rio Grande Valley officials and border residents later Sunday.

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) joined Breitbart News Daily to defend his opposition to the resolution to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas.

The U.S. is “more vulnerable from inside terror attacks than at any time in its history,” former President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.

Republicans will seek to exploit the White House’s intense desire for more aid to Ukraine by tying it to long-sought changes in border and immigration policy, according to a report from Politico.

The House of Representatives will vote this week to beef up border security and keep the government open, sparking a showdown with an obstinate Senate desiring the status quo at the southern border.

There will be a government shutdown if Joe Biden “stays on the sidelines while our border is destroyed” Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters.

House Republicans are hammering out their differences over spending plans for 2024 while Democrats and the media blame them for the looming shutdown caused by the establishment’s unpopular demands for more migration and the war in Ukraine.

Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR) told Breitbart News that Congress has an opportunity to “close the southern border” and keep government open by passing a stopgap funding bill.

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) announced her endorsement of former President Donald Trump on Friday night in Rapid City, South Dakota, at the South Dakota Republican Party’s (GOP) Monumental Leaders Rally, calling him “the fighter that our country needs.”  “It is

Miami Mayor and Republican presidential hopeful Francis Suarez says there is a sense of hopelessness along the border. People don’t see an end to the current crisis where only the cartels seem to be benefiting, he explained during a visit to the Texas/ Mexico border.

The Eagle Pass City Council voted unanimously to rescind an agreement with the State of Texas designating a public park as private property under the control of the Department of Public Safety. The designation allowed Texas law enforcement authorities to post “Private Property” signs within the park and facilitated the prosecution of migrants for criminal trespass. 

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas on Monday over a buoy barrier Republican Gov. Greg Abbott built in the Rio Grande River without federal approval.

Shortly after the 88th Texas Legislature adjourned sine die, Governor Greg Abbott called them back to what is expected to be several special legislative sessions. The first session, which began Monday night, calls for the legislators to pass bills related to border security and property tax relief.

Democrats will block a border security bill until American citizens accept more poor migrants into their workplaces and neighborhoods, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) told a GOP-led hearing on Tuesday.

The detriment to “national sovereignty, border security, and the safety of American citizens” caused by ending Title 42 “cannot be overstated,” warned Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who slammed President Biden for “prioritizing an open-borders agenda above any semblance of border security.”

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) on Saturday blasted the Biden administration for its willingness to spend taxpayer dollars to fund border security in other countries but not the U.S., telling Breitbart News Saturday that it is all part of President Biden’s plan to transform the country and “shift the entire demographics of America in a way that benefits them at the election box.”

Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Monday reported on a growing number of videos posted to China’s controversial TikTok platform that teach Chinese nationals how to sneak across the U.S. border from Mexico.

America “needs” immigrants in order to “pick the food we eat” and “clean our homes,” according to progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) who faced accusations of “racism” over her recent comments.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday said he wrote a letter to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping pleading for his help in slowing down the flood of deadly fentanyl passing from China into Mexico, and then over President Joe Biden’s open borders into the United States. Lopez Obrador got his answer on Thursday when the Chinese Foreign Ministry insisted there was no illegal fentanyl traffic from China into Mexico.

Britain’s Home Secretary has said boat migrants who may be removed from Britain and resettled in Rwanda should think of the arrangements as a “blessing”, infuriating anti-borders activists and politicians.

Former President Donald Trump leads Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) by nearly 30 points in a hypothetical head-to-head primary match-up in Arizona, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll.

Rebecca Kiessling, who lost two sons to fentanyl poisoning, said many parents in support groups blame Joe Biden for their children’s deaths.

NGOs rejected proposals to build border walls to stop illegal migration flows, likening walls and barriers to Brexit.

European Union leaders claim they will increase security on the bloc’s common external border after illegal arrivals topped 330,000 last year, the highest number since the 2015-16 migrant crisis.

Germany is using the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria as an excuse to weaken border controls, vowing to allow in many more migrants said to be fleeing the crisis.

Bulgarian border guards have been accused of pushing back and even beating illegal immigrants by open borders activists and others, but the Bulgarian authorities deny any abuses have taken place.