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The “caravan” of Honduran migrants seeking entry into the United States is an organized and direct political challenge to Americans’ borders and to President Donald Trump’s popular immigration policies. 

“Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must stop people from going through Mexico and into the U.S.,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, (UCSB) had some strong opinions about President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy troops to the U.S.-Mexico border but seemed shocked when they learned former President Barack Obama did the same thing.

Hundreds of additional National Guard troops ordered by the Trump administration may finally make it to the U.S. southern border in California after fierce negotiations between California officials and their federal counterparts.

A new fencing project underway by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at the United States-Mexico border is being touted by President Trump’s administration as his border “wall.”

California Governor Jerry Brown has not refused President Donald Trump’s call to deploy the California National Guard to assist interdictions of illegal immigrants and drugs along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Dale Wilcox, executive director and general counsel for the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), joined Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight to discuss his organization’s filing of two briefs against California to challenge the Golden State’s “sanctuary state” law. He spoke with Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Patrick Courrielche.

President Donald Trump is sending only about 3,000 National Guard to the borders this Spring. 

Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, discussed immigration during an interview Wednesday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak and described a 1,500-person caravan from Central America seeking entry to the U.S. as composed of “economic migrants.” He rejected characterizations of the caravaneers as refugees.

The limited deployment of the National Guard to the border is political theater because it will do nothing to help or accelerate the repatriation of migrants who use border-law loopholes to claim asylum and work-permits, say immigration reformers.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced from the White House briefing room on Wednesday that President Donald Trump is deploying National Guard troops to the U.S. southern border immediately in conjunction with the border state governors.

A conservative legal expert says President Donald Trump has three legal powers to bypass the establishment’s bipartisan opposition to a border wall. 

“I’ve been speaking with General Mattis. We’re going to be doing things militarily,” Trump said, adding, “Until we can have a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military.”

“President Obama made changes that basically created no border,” Trump said, criticizing the “so weak and so pathetic” laws for immigration enforcement.

The Democrats who refuse to fix border-law loopholes are encouraging a mass movement of illegal immigrants into the United States, White House officials said Monday.

“We started building our wall. I’m so proud of it. We started,” Trump said, pointing to the pictures he posted on Twitter of the new border bollard fencing constructed in Calexico.

Nearly 400 sheriffs across the country are calling on the Republican-controlled Congress to follow through on President Trump’s popular immigration agenda by securing the nation’s porous borders and criminalizing sanctuary cities.

Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer says any effort by President Donald Trump to shift military funding to build his border wall get blocked by a lawsuit, acording to the Washington Post. 

The omnibus purposefully narrows the scope of what the president can do with the $1.6 billion—just 0.12 percent of the spending bill—included in the bill for border security.

President Donald Trump signaled disappointment that the 2,232-page omnibus spending bill only provided $1.6 billion for border fencing, but said that it helped “start” the wall.

The omnibus spending bill passed by the Republican-controlled House and Senate does not fund the 1,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that President Trump requested last year.

The omnibus spending bill passed by the Republican-controlled House and Senate specifically bans President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from building new border walls and fencing with the prototype designs the president most recently visited.

Ann Coulter says President Trump’s border wall prototypes sitting in the San Diego, California, desert are “a ridiculous waste of time.”

Lizbeth Mateo, the illegal alien who was appointed to state office in California on Wednesday, was arrested in 2013 for trying to cross back into the United States after “self-deporting” to Mexico.

El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos está desperdiciando dólares de nuestros impuestos en México, en una serie de programas vinculados a la Iniciativa Mérida para combatir los cárteles y el tráfico de droga. Organizaciones criminales transnacionales (cárteles) establecidas en México prosperan cuando el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos equilibra las prioridades de las agencias policiales con preocupaciones diplomáticas, a menudo colocando a la política y la diplomacia por encima de prioridades como el desmantelamiento de las redes criminales que introducen drogas por la frontera hacia comunidades de Estados Unidos.

NORTH WAZIRISTAN, PAKISTAN — Pakistan is building a border wall with Afghanistan, after decades of unsuccessfully controlling the flow of terrorists and criminals who quietly slip back and forth along the porous 1,500-mile border, evading capture.

President Donald Trump arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border early Tuesday afternoon to inspect the eight prototypes for the border wall he promised to build.

President Donald Trump announced that he would not proceed to build the wall on the southern border without the approval of the entire project.

An effort by the state of California to block construction of President Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has been dismissed.

President Donald Trump will not visit the southern border as part of his push for more border security in exchange for amnesty for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is asking Congress for $1.6 billion in appropriations to build 65 more miles of border wall in 2019 — and is also asking for $18 billion to be set aside in the two-year budget for border-wall funding over the next few years.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday toured the Golan Heights, warning Israel’s enemies over the northern border “not to test us” and saying the IDF was prepared for “every scenario.”

The “world’s most persistent” illegal alien has been deported out of the United States a total of 44 times over a period of 15 years, according to a new report.

Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) expansive amnesty plan does not fund a wall along the United States-Mexico border, nor does it reduce legal immigration levels to help raise wages for American workers – two provisions President Trump has demanded.

“A real wall, not a little wall … they have them; they don’t work,” Trump said. “You need a real wall that will work 99.9 percent.”

A copy of President Donald Trump’s draft immigration and amnesty bill includes many legal reforms which would fill the “catch and release” legal loopholes used by migrants to walk through the border.