During an interview with NBC News that took place on Wednesday and was released Thursday, Deputy Director and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director of ICE P.J. Lechleitner stated that he’s not surprised that President Joe Biden didn’t
During an interview with NBC News that took place on Wednesday and was released Thursday, Deputy Director and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director of ICE P.J. Lechleitner said that President Joe Biden “absolutely” should have taken the
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) stated that people take for granted that they were “allowed” “to move on to concerns about the economy, to concerns about border security” due to the 2020 election being
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) stated that he believes that there aren’t going to be many areas where it would make sense for Democrats to work with Republicans because “Republicans say they want
Defending the nation’s borders is the “number one priority” of the 119th Congress, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said in a speech shortly after securing the gavel.
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” host Abby Phillip responded to the surge in encounters of people on the terror watchlist on the border by stating that people on the terror watchlist didn’t carry out the recent attacks and people
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” CNN Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller stated that while the border is unrelated to the terrorist attack in New Orleans and there are plenty of terrorists who don’t cross the border illegally,
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responded to questions on how we can ensure ISIS won’t exploit the border by stating that “individuals who pose a threat to public safety or our
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” incoming Border Czar Tom Homan predicted that there will be an increase in violence on the United States-Mexico border at the beginning of the Trump administration because cartels will
President-Elect Donald Trump issued a statement on the fatal New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans, calling it an “act of pure evil.”
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s edition of the “Fox News Rundown” podcast, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) stated that it’s best to try to do border security, tax cuts, and energy legislation in one large reconciliation package to get buy-in
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he sides more with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in the debate over immigration, “you’ve got to secure the border if you want the American people to
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” host Alicia Menendez stated that she’s talking about immigration enforcement “because of the season we find ourselves in, and the spirit of welcoming the refugee, finding and giving sanctuary.” And said that
On Monday’s “CNN NewsNight,” host Abby Phillip discussed the suspected burning murder of a woman on the New York subway by an illegal immigrant and said that nothing the Biden administration did in the past year worked at stopping a
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said that immigration needs to be fixed in a “bipartisan and comprehensive manner, and, certainly, we have to secure the border” and “we have to make
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg (D) said Americans have been failed by open border policies from Democrats and that if legislation by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “or any
On Thursday’s broadcast of WBUR’s “Here and Now,” New York Times Senior Writer David Leonhardt discussed the record immigration influx under President Joe Biden and stated that the surge is mainly due to Biden’s policies, despite the inaccurate protests of members
During an interview with CBS News on Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) reacted to President-Elect Donald Trump expressing openness to a deal on DREAMers by stating that securing the border and deportations need to come first and then “we’ll have
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” incoming Border Czar Tom Homan stated that President-Elect Donald Trump “put a plan on the table to address the DREAMers, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Schumer
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” incoming Border Czar Tom Homan said he will litigate the Flores settlement at the Supreme Court and that he wants to deal with family units by detaining them “in a non-jail setting, an open-air,
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” incoming Border Czar Tom Homan stated Congress needs to act to fix the unaccompanied minor issues on the border by reforming federal law to treat children who come from other countries the same way
Democrat senators are reportedly admitting their party’s failure regarding border security was part of the reason President-elect Donald Trump (R) won the 2024 election.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that while he thinks across-the-board tariffs aren’t a good idea, “the law enforcement cooperation between us and those uncorrupted parts of the Mexican law enforcement establishment [is] not going
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said that incoming Border Czar Tom Homan “knows what needs to work” and is willing to talk to him, which is different from the Biden administration not always listening
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Way Too Early,” Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) blamed the surge in migrants on stricter American policy towards Cuba at the end of the first Trump administration and stricter policy on Venezuela and a lack of
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) argued that Democrats aren’t just getting around to dealing with immigration, because he worked with then-Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) on immigration legislation several years ago. Host Chris Cuomo asked, “[O]rdinarily,
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who also served as Commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service and Under Secretary for enforcement at the U.S. Treasury Department under
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CBS Mornings,” TSA Administrator David Pekoske said that sending air marshals to the border hasn’t impacted air security and they’re only provided if TSA can spare them and “if we need them back right away, we get
On Friday’s edition of NBC’s “MTP Now,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) said that the economy and immigration were the key issues in the 2024 election and Democrats didn’t make people understand that the economy issue “all started with the pandemic”
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that while most Senate Democrats do not believe that the “core accomplishments” of the Biden-Harris administration were the wrong policies, “there were some key issues that were not
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responded to questions on whether the Biden administration should have done anything differently on the border by saying that “We have actually built an architecture now that is
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded to a question on if Democrats are responsible for the political climate on inflation, the border, and President Joe Biden’s fitness for the job by
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said that Democrats failed to see that much of the Republican Party’s focus on immigration “was about telling Americans that they are not at the mercy of forces beyond
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) vowed to “do everything that I can to protect our undocumented immigrants.” But also stated that the state “had the problem of the very inhumane shipping of migrants”
Thousands of retired border patrol agents, retired ICE agents, and police officers have reached out and want to help restore order, Tom Homan, former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director whom former President and President-elect Donald Trump tapped as “border czar,” said during a Tuesday appearance on SiriusXM’s The David Webb Show.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” former Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz stated that, during the Biden administration, “One of the things we struggled with when I was the Chief was getting engagement from policy officials
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) stated that “the Biden administration demonstrated incompetence in managing the migrant crisis,” President Joe Biden “had the unilateral ability to issue an executive order restricting migration at the border, and
On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) stated that some counties in his district along the border shifted towards President-Elect Donald Trump because Hispanic voters who are the descendants of legal immigrants see “people jump the
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” CNN Political Commentator and former Biden White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said that Republicans sending migrants to Democratic cities did force people who don’t live near the border to care more about
On Thursday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) reacted to President-Elect Donald Trump’s success among Hispanic voters, especially in the Rio Grande Valley and along the border by stating that Republicans “tried to convince all Americans, including Latinos, that,
