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To more quickly begin constructing President Trump’s wall plan along the U.S.-Mexico Border, the Department of Homeland (DHS) is cutting red tape that would otherwise delay the project.

Four illegal aliens who were all previously deported are now facing charges for re-entering the country.

Statistics released by the Honduran government for 2017 show that Mexico has deported over one thousand more Hondurans than the United States in the same period.

A previously deported illegal alien smuggler threw a softball-sized rock at a U.S. Border Patrol agent’s face.

Companies have expressed numerous concerns over the proposed border walls. With the lack of funding in the 2017 budget, those concerns are growing.

A report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) this week demonstrates all tunnels discovered were under the U.S.-Mexico Border.

California Democratic lawmakers compared the building of border walls to segregation and internment camps.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers discovered an abandoned tunnel on a tip.

The U.S.-Mexico international boundary, under former President Barack Obama, was a “very, very open border almost” and illegal aliens “understood” they could enter the United States and blend into the population, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly tells CNN, noting that is no longer the case.

The driver of a pickup truck suspected of human smuggling escaped arrest after leading Border Patrol agents and local police on a chase. The driver rammed a police car during the pursuit.

TEL AVIV – The news media in recent days has been hyping remarks made by Steven Goldstein, executive director of the largely unknown Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, repeatedly accusing President Trump and his administration of anti-Semitism.

The huge infrastructure project in question is the approximately 2,000-mile-long wall along the United States’ southern border with Mexico. This project has been estimated to cost somewhere between $10-20 billion. While the project is supported by many Americans, it’s not a burden the American taxpayer is going to want to shoulder, or a project we should financially burden our ally and neighbor with.

Protesters flocked to U.S.-Mexico border crossings on Sunday to protest the 20 percent gasoline price hike that went into effect in Mexico on January 1.

The Santa Fe City Council narrowly failed to pass a controversial resolution that denounced many of the policies of the incoming presidential administration and would have defiantly resolved that the City would “continue to be a sanctuary city.” The resolution also expressly rejected the idea of building a wall at the U.S.-Mexico Border, and mentioned President-Elect Donald Trump by name. The vote was 4-4 with one abstention.

For the second night in a row Sunday night, demonstrators protesting gas price hikes in Mexico blocked south traveling vehicle traffic at the busiest land port of entry in the western hemisphere, where vehicles leave the United States at San Diego to enter Mexico.

U.S. authorities have uncovered and destroyed 224 tunnels used to smuggle bulk quantities of illicit drugs along the U.S.-Mexico border since 1990–including 22 discovered in the last two years alone–reports the DEA in its latest National Drug Threat Assessment.

NEW YORK – “We must have that wall,” declared Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa Country, Arizona during a radio interview last night.

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), tells Breitbart News Daily that countries that are known to support radical Islamic terrorism are “cutting deals” with Mexican cartels for access to human smuggling routes into the United States.

The number of illegals from terror-linked countries, officially known as Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), arrested along the U.S.-Mexico border has nearly doubled to 462 in 2015 alone, from 255 in 2011, the last year for which the government released data without a FOIA request.

U.S. officials are trying to establish closer cooperation with various Latin American nations to combat an increase in the number of illegal migrants from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East attempting to sneak into the United States.

TEL AVIV – The Israeli company that built a barrier along the Jewish state’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip is seeking to expand into the U.S. market, eying the possibility of aiding in the construction of a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border.

TEL AVIV – As the debate over Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border continues to dominate the presidential race, Israel is reportedly planning to move ahead with a massive above and underground concrete barrier across the entire nearly 37-mile border with the Gaza Strip.

The grounds keeper at the Old Hidalgo Pumphouse, a museum located at the border, tells News 5 KRGV he often sees illegal immigrants crossing the border into the U.S. and finds what they leave behind.

TEL AVIV – The U.S. is cosponsoring an Israeli-invented tunnel detection system that could prevent drug smugglers and illegal migrants from cross-border passage with Mexico, ISRAEL21c reported. The technology, which is being heralded as the underground Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, was behind the IDF’s recent discovery of a 1.5 mile-long Hamas terror tunnel from Gaza and into Israeli territory.

Federal officials in California have seized a 400 yard cross-border tunnel, 1,500 pounds of marijuana and made six arrests this week after law enforcement monitored the construction of a home drug traffickers paid to have built to conceal the drug tunnel opening.

On Friday, Uber launched UberPassport, a first-of-its-kind cross-border transportation service that will take passengers on a one-way trip from San Diego as far east as Mexicali, which is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California, and also to Tijuana.

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio called former Mexican President Vicente Fox “disgusting” for saying Donald Trump echoes Adolf Hitler, during a Sunday radio interview.  “I just can’t believe what this guy has done and I can’t believe why our country hasn’t gone

Papal biographer and well-known Catholic commentator George Weigel said two years ago that Cardinal Sean O’Malley and fellow bishops who celebrated Mass on the U.S.-Mexico border to urge immigration reform were “politicizing” the Mass.

As many as 40,000 Cubans seeking asylum could cross the southern U.S. border in the coming months, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) tells local KGBT-TV.

GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” to get a chance to speak after being unhappy with the lack of time he had in the CNN GOP debate. Huckabee got on the subject

Jack Riley, the No. 2 at the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), signaled support for Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the Southern border in a recent interview centered on hunting down Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. “I’m all for anything that would make a difference in stopping criminals and the flow of drugs. I’m a cop. Whatever the policymakers decide, I’ll work with,” said Riley, signaling support for Trump’s immigration proposal.

One in every five Border Patrol apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border last year was of a criminal alien, the head of the union representing border patrol agents testified Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee.

That figure only accounts for those who have been apprehended by Panamanian authorities. When apprehended by Panamanian border agents, the immigrants are not deported. They are allowed to pass through instead. The illegals spend no longer than a week in Panama.

Mexico now deports more Central American migrants than the United States, a dramatic shift since the U.S. asked Mexico for help a year ago with a spike in illegal migration, especially among unaccompanied minors.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in the latest edition of its propaganda magazine, indicated that it could purchase a nuclear weapon in Pakistan, take it to Nigeria, and then smuggle it into the U.S. through Mexico by using existing trafficking networks in Latin America.

WASHINGTON, DC — The Sheriff of an Arizona county that shares a border with Mexico warned that terrorists could use “VIP” tunnels along the southwest border to enter the United States. Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County, Arizona testified today before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.