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Wednesday on CNN’s “Right Now,” former Obama administration Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said climate change is a national security threat, the U.S. Mexico border is not. Napolitano said, “One real threat is the impacts of climate change on our safety

The House failed on Tuesday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a resolution that would terminate his national emergency declaration to build a wall along the southern border. 

The Pentagon announced Monday evening that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan authorized $1 billion for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for building the border wall pursuant to the president’s emergency declaration last month.

Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) says the illegal alien accused of killing school teacher Sonya Jones of Mobile, Alabama, in a head-on, hit-and-run car crash gamed the United States’ asylum system and took advantage of the Catch and Release policy.

President Trump’s administration is arresting fewer illegal aliens living in the interior of the United States as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is strained dealing with booming levels of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Border patrol officers will start releasing many of the myriad migrants crossing the Rio Grande without even going through the formalities of temporary detention or strapping removable tracking-devices to the migrants’ ankles, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. 

Thieves in Tijuana are reportedly stealing razor wire from a U.S. border wall to secure nearby homes.

Border agents arrested 62 Central American migrants for breaching the border fence near Border Field State Park in Imperial Beach, California, over two days last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials announced Friday.

President Donald Trump told Breitbart News during his exclusive interview on Monday that there is an “invasion” of illegal immigration coming across the southern border.

Border security is collapsing because the cartels and migrants are exploiting Congress’ refusal to close loopholes through the border, homeland secretary Kristjen Nielsen said Monday morning.

Actor Jim Carrey went into full meltdown mode with a recent social media post, claiming that the Trump presidency is a planet threatening, Nazi meteor-sized “extinction level event.”

National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd says border crossers and illegal aliens are “being dropped off” in the United States as the federal government has yet to build any new border wall barriers at the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) said those who support President Donald Trump’s travel ban from high-risk countries and building a wall on the U.S. Mexico border are following the white supremacy agenda. Host Jake Tapper asked,

The Senate passed a resolution on Thursday that would end President Donald Trump’s national emergency on the border with less than a veto-proof majority; however, the president has already threatened to veto the legislation.

Retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) became on Thursday the seventh Senate Republican to oppose President Donald Trump’s national emergency. 

The Senate will vote on a resolution that would end President Donald Trump’s national emergency to build a wall along the southern border.

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to secure funds to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border was “frankly irresponsible.” She went on to describe it as a “political

Sen. Mitt Romney announced Thursday that he will join more Republican senators against the national emergency, contending that the vote against his national emergency does not amount to a vote “against border security.” 

“This is going to be a positive campaign that seeks to bring out the very best from every single one of us, that seeks to unite a very divided country,” O’Rourke said in a video recorded with his wife, Amy Sanders O’Rourke.

The Pentagon unveiled a $750 billion budget request for 2020, that prioritizes the threats from China and Russia.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) announced Wednesday he will become the fifth Republican senator to back a resolution to nullify President Donald Trump’s national emergency.

Failed former Speaker Paul Ryan backtracked on his comments on Wednesday and blamed Democrats and the media for injecting “personality” into the elections, not President Donald Trump. 

Nearly three-quarters of Republican voters will more likely vote for a candidate if they back President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, according to a poll released on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump marveled that any Senate Republican could vote against his decision to declare a National Emergency on the Southern border in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in the Oval Office on Monday.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s misleading tweet on the subject had earned a combined total of likes and retweets in excess of 50,000.

President Donald Trump’s $8.6 billion request for border-wall construction in 2020 should be denied, and the funds redirected to schools and “rebuilding Amerca,” say top Democratic leaders. 

President Donald Trump on Saturday referred to prominent conservative author Ann Coulter as a “Wacky Nut Job” following months of criticism she has directed at him regarding the lack of progress building a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Wednesday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said it is “a dangerous precedent,” for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency at the U.S. Mexico border because that would, “effectively expand executive powers by legislative acquiescence.” Murkowski said, “The

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the United States being “flooded” with migrants coming across the U.S. southern border is indeed a “crisis.”

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, including his decision to declare a state of emergency on the southern border.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) told Breitbart News that he plans to support President Donald Trump on his national emergency and build the wall along the southern border. “We must protect” Americans and secure the border, Daines said.

Roughly 900,000 migrants will cross the border this year, homeland defense secretary Kirstjen Nielsen predicted March 6.

During Tuesday’s CNN broadcast of “New Day,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) slammed the idea that a wall along the southern border is going to solve the nation’s illegal immigration issues, calling it “inane.” “[Y]ou talk about long term, you know,

Media outlets finally seem to be admitting the rapidly growing rush of migrants across the Mexico border.

President Trump is projected to oversee the largest flow of illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border since former President Bush’s administration, surpassing every year of crossings under former President Obama.

The migrant inflow may reach 100,000 people in March, according to the Washington Post, as Democrats, business-first Republicans, progressive judges, and cartels hold open U.S. borders.