Browsing: Southern border

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), on Thursday, became the first Senate Democrat to co-sponsor the Laken Riley Act, which is named after the 22-year-old nursing student who was killed on the University of Georgia’s campus by a Venezuelan migrant. Tester’s co-sponsorship of the measure is notable because he voted against it when it was offered as…

Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who leads the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, had a heated exchange with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about the migrant crisis at the southern border on Capitol Hill. Tester, who is one of the Senate’s most at-risk current officeholders, made it clear to Austin that he's tired of the…

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) replied to Donald Trump Jr. on Friday for criticizing three Senate Democrats who voted to end the impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Just a reminder that Republicans are full of it when they complain about the border,” Murphy wrote Friday morning. “They blocked the strong,…

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said Sunday that the difference between democratic and authoritarian regimes is that Russia and Iran would not tell the United States if there was going to be a terrorist attack in the U.S. Host Shannon Bream asked Kaine on “Fox News Sunday” whether the southern border can lead to “real danger”…

A Super PAC supporting former President Donald Trump, MAGA Inc., released a new ad hitting President Biden on immigration, a key issue for voters heading into the general election, Friday. “Nobody…Nobody is going to be deported,” Biden said in the 15-second ad, while footage plays of immigrants rushing the border fence. “There will not be…

Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) voiced his disagreement regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday allowing a Texas law to take effect that will authorize the state’s law enforcement to arrest people who enter the U.S. through the southern border illegally. Cuellar, the co-chair of the recently established border security task force, disagrees that a state can enforce…

President Biden offered his condolences for National Guardsmen and a Border Patrol agent who died in a recent helicopter crash on Saturday. “These brave Americans devoted their lives to safeguarding our nation,” Biden said in a statement. “They enlisted knowing the risks and believing in the mission of serving their fellow Americans by keeping their…

A judge at the federal level decided on Friday that a recent initiative permitting a maximum of 30,000 potential asylum-seekers from four nations to come into the U.S. through airports every month can persist, dealing a setback to Republican authorities in Texas who filed a lawsuit to stop the program. The legal case focuses on the government's utilization of parole under immigration law to…

Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign, stated on Friday that President Biden's use of the word “illegal” to refer to a person, specifically José Ibarra, a Venezuelan national, should be seen as a “minor mistake” in the context of his overall message and should be understood as such.