Jason Hopkins on March 20, 2020 The Trump administration on Friday announced a ban on all non-essential travel on the northern and southern borders, the latest response to stop the spread of coronavirus. Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, standing beside President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, declared that the Mexican…
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is asking the Department of Homeland Security to accept donations from charities for migrants at the Southern border. “I … urge you to establish and publicize a process for accepting donations from charitable organizations, faith-based organizations, and [nongovernmental organizations] to aid individuals in [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] custody,” the Republican…
Open borders is a valid proposition arriving at an inopportune occasion. It is a sucker’s play that we are pulled into this debate as our social safety net is more attractive to the third world than ever before with no audible discussion on it to be found in the mainstream.
Jason Hopkinson Republish Reprint President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to give law enforcement officials the authority to conduct interviews with asylum seekers arriving on the U.S.-Mexico border. Under the upcoming plan, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers would train Border Patrol agents deployed on the southern border on how to perform “credible fear…
The Senate voted to put the ax to President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration which he planned to use to construct a border wall along the US/Mexico border on Thursday. This looks like it will set up the first veto battle with the current administration. The Senate passed a resolution to block the president’s emergency…
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) announced Saturday in a speech at Southern Kentucky Lincoln Day Dinner that he would vote in favor of a resolution blocking President Trump’s Emergency Declaration saying, “I can’t vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president.” In the speech given at an event mainly praising the actions of President Trump, Senator…
President Donald Trump is planning to declare a state of national emergency at the U.S. Southern border, and use those powers to order the construction of a border wall, according to a report by CNN. Trump has indicated that he is willing to take drastic measures to bypass Congress, especially considering that the Democrats are…
President Trump said on Thursday that he would “almost definitely” declare a state of national emergency to build his border wall and fulfill a central promise of his campaign. Declaring a state of emergency would bypass the congressional process to construct a wall on the United States’ southern border. “If we don’t make a deal,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett GOP California Rep. Duncan Hunter wrote a letter in May to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and head of the EPA Scott Pruitt, urging the two to take action on the sewage spill in Tijuana that is pouring into the U.S. and apparently making Border Patrol agents ill. Hunter drew…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The Liberty minded Senator Paul of Kentucky has jumped on board with a bill which would aim to cut warrantless searches by border agents of Americans’ phones as they try to reenter the country. The “Protecting Data at the Border Act” is sponsored by Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ron…