As Trump’s national emergency continues to face scrutiny, Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Kevin McAleenan and Brian Hastings, chief of operations, US Border Patrol are holding a briefing to release new statistics showing a large increase in apprehensions at the U.S. southern border in 2018 compared to 2017. McAleenan and Hastings also plan to discuss […]
Arrests of Migrant Families at The Border Hits All-Time High…
House Dems Grill Homeland Security Boss on Border Crisis…
Border Patrol: We Have a Border Security and Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border (VIDEO)…
Trump Admin Renews ‘Temporary’ Amnesty for over 300,000 Foreign Nationals…
The Trump administration will be extending the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 foreign nationals, in a sharp immigration policy reversal from last year’s decision by President Trump decision to eliminate TPS amnesty. The Thursday announcement by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Kirstjen Nielsen not only puts the Trump administration in compliance with […]
Pentagon Sending Another 3,750 Troops to U.S.-Mexico Border…
The Pentagon says it will send 3,750 more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to put up another 150 miles of concertina wire and provide other support for Customs and Border Protection. The additions announced Sunday will bring the total number of active-duty troops on the border to 4,350. The announcement is in line with what […]
U.S. Homeland Security Refutes NBC Report That Claims Russia Hacked 2016 Elections…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said a recent report by NBC News was misleading. The channel claimed Russia “successfully penetrated” the voting systems of several states. “Recent NBC reporting has misrepresented facts and confused the public with regard to Department of Homeland Security and state and local government efforts to combat election hacking,” DHS […]
Trump Picks Kelly Deputy Kirstjen Nielsen to Lead DHS…
President Trump plans to nominate Kirstjen Nielsen, a top aide to White House chief of staff John Kelly, to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the White House announced Wednesday. Nielsen served as Kelly’s top aide during his stint as DHS secretary earlier this year and continued to work as his deputy chief of […]
Trump and the ‘Pivot’ to Democrats…
As usual with President Trump’s more imaginative moves, the arrangement with the Democratic congressional leaders to defer the debt-ceiling issue for three months and pass hurricane relief at once was a more important step than it appears. The key element of it is that he has moved to higher and more defensible political ground…
Homeland Security, FBI Call Antifa ‘Domestic Terrorists’…
Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as “antifa” had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as “domestic terrorist violence,” according to…