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<p>NEW YORK - An estimated 35.3 million people saw President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders speak to the nation on border security and the partial government shutdown.</p> <p>That's about 10 million fewer viewers than Trump had for his 2018 State of the Union address. The Nielsen company said Wednesday it was similar to President Barack Obama's 2014 presidential address on fighting the Islamic state, which was seen by 34 million people.</p>

Liberal music superstar Cher is holding congressional Democrats’ feet to the fire amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. It came after President Trump delivered a prime-time address from the Oval Office on Tuesday night making the case for funding the border wall, which was followed by a response from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who argued that the president must reopen the government in order to continue conversations about border security. Cher then took to Twitter to blast the president for promising that Mexico would pay for the wall and demanded him to...

Scott Adams has been doing the kind of investigative work that mainstream journalists won't do. This is a eye opening interview with Breitbart's Brandon Darby who is at the border gathering intelligence from anonymous sources.  Brandon is a hero and is putting his life on the line speaking out. In fact, the big takeaway from the talk is that the crisis at the border is causing massive bloodshed and crime at the border, killing tens of thousands of Mexicans and Central American citizens. Brandon, who speaks Spanish and English, reveals many interesting and unheard opinions.  The border a highly...

Congressional Democratic leaders have embraced the goal of increased border security in their fight with President Trump, proposing measures to harden the U.S. ports of entry — but omitting the barrier they supported five years ago. The ports of entry, which account for roughly 2.5 percent of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, represent a small fraction of the security measures, including hundreds of miles of border fence, that every Senate Democrat supported before Donald Trump became president. Democrats now are limiting the security measures they back to sending more customs officials and deploying new technology at the 48 ports of entry...

The federal government has started surveying land along the border in Texas and announced plans to start construction next month. Rather than surrender their land, some property owners are digging in, vowing to reject buyout offers and preparing to fight the administration in court. "You could give me a trillion dollars and I wouldn't take it," said Cavazos, whose land sits along the Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas. "It's not about money." Congress in March funded 33 miles (53 kilometers) of walls and fencing in Texas. The government has laid out plans that would...

Illegal immigration across the southwest border actually ticked down in December — though the number of illegal immigrant families still shattered records with nearly 32,000 caught trying to jump the border, officials said Wednesday. The 31,901 parents and children traveling together and nabbed by Border Patrol agents last month is a 27 percent increase over November, and is nearly twice the worst months of the Obama years. But other categories of illegal immigrants dropped, with fewer unaccompanied children caught at the border or stopped at the ports of entry, Homeland Security said. The numbers came a day after President Trump...

Once again his political instincts prove accurate. But I’m glad he gave the speech anyway. We got some sweet-ass Pelosi/Schumer memes out of it. They look like rich parents being told their loutish son just got kicked out of college again pic.twitter.com/49ZUXSHbyn— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) January 9, 2019 Here’s the Times reporting on POTUS’s pre-speech lunch with TV hosts yesterday. Attendees weren’t allowed to discuss publicly what Trump said to them, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t gossip to their colleagues in the media: Yet privately, Mr. Trump dismissed his own new strategy as pointless. In an off-the-record lunch with...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is making herself an even bigger headache to her fellow Democrats, giving a wild third response to President Trump's speech, which pretty well eclipses the Democrats' carefully crafted messaging. Which shows just what a mess the Democrats are these days, and how she's happy to be their problem. ~snip~ But that was the least of it. Now we have incoming, buck-private-ranked, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weighing in for a third Democratic response, the voice of the radical left, and her messaging was way out in left field compared to the other two. Pelosi and Schumer, whatever the weakness of...

The Democrats have closed their ears to the cries of anguish of their own citizenry Led by top Dem donkeys Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Democrats tried a play last night to make as many in the masses as deranged about reality as they are. They want the masses to repeat after them that the border crisis isn’t happening—their most outrageous denial of them all. Flatly denying the border crisis hasn’t saved a single life in 40 years. Pelosi has been in public office for 31 years, Schumer for 38 years., making Almost 70 years between them.

Five Republican Senators reintroduced the WALL Act Tuesday, a bill to fully fund a wall along the U.S. southern border. “Their legislation, first introduced last December, is also the first bill that will fund the wall by identifying specific funding sources,” read a Tuesday announcement from the five senators. The five are Senators are Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Mike Rounds (R-SD), John Kennedy (R-LA), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA)

A humanitarian and security crisis at the southern border must be addressed, President Donald Trump told the country last night in his first Oval Office address. His speech also addressed the flow of drugs and crime, the high rates of abuse associated with human trafficking, and the use of children as pawns to thwart laws protecting the U.S. border from illegal entry.“This is the tragic reality of illegal immigration on our southern border. This is the cycle of human suffering that I am determined to end,” Trump said, laying out a plan that includes drug-detection technology, increased border agents...

LAST NIGHT, PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE THE FOLLOWING REQUEST: "To every citizen, call Congress, and tell them to finally, after all of these decades, secure our border." U.S. Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate office you request. Oh, Congress is going to be upset with you, when they get calls all day ... same number connects you to House members! The President’s Speech PRESIDENT TRUMP: My fellow Americans, tonight I’m speaking to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. Every day, Customs and Border Protection...

I tuned in to Fox TV to watch Trump's Speech on Border Security anchored by none other than Shepard Smith ( and supported by Chris Wallace ). I was hoping that Fox would at least give some balanced report on Donald Trump's speech unlike the other alphabet channel's pundits. But just like that Shep Smith, just a few seconds after Trump finished his speech gave the following "refutation" (Note the quotes) of Trump's points ( I think Smith had already prepared his talking points having seen the contents of Trump's speech before hand ): 1) On average, the crime rate...

As much as they hate to admit it now, national Democrats were against illegal immigration before they were for it. All quotes guaranteed verbatim: Barack Obama, 2005: “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the U.S. undocumented, undetected, unchecked, circumventing the people who are waiting patiently, diligently, lawfully to become immigrants in this country.” Hillary Clinton, 2014: “I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in and I do think you have to control your borders.” Sen. Chuck Schumer, 2009: “People who enter...

According to new reports, every major news network plans to televise President Trump’s first address from the Oval Office Tuesday night. CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox News and Fox Business all plan to air Trump’s address focusing on border security. “ABC, NBC, MSNBC taking, too. So trump will have a primetime platform across broadcast and cable tomorrow night to push the idea of a “crisis” at the southern border,” Politico media reporter Michael Calderone said in a tweet. CSPAN will also televise the address. [cut] Breitbart News previously reported that many television networks were debating whether or not...

Weeks after mainstream media outlets reported that illegal immigrants don’t bring disease into the United States, the Border Patrol reveals that it is getting slammed daily with dozens of illegal immigrants carrying “serious illnesses.” This includes tuberculosis, influenza and pneumonia. In fact, a Guatemalan migrant who died in U.S. custody on Christmas Eve had Influenza B, a virus that causes respiratory infections. Federal agents are referring 50 illegal immigrants a day for urgent medical care, according to figures obtained by Washington D.C.’s conservative newspaper . Authorities say “it’s unlike anything they’ve ever seen before.” Many of the migrants have tuberculosis,...

The murder of Newman California Police Corporal Ronil Singh allegedly by an illegal alien with a criminal past is the latest high-profile killing of an American citizen that contains nearly every element in our illegal immigration discourse. Singh, 33, legally immigrated to the United States, became a U.S. citizen, and then became one of Newman’s finest citizens serving as a police officer for twelve years. Singh’s legal entry into the U.S. added value to our country. Sadly, this husband and father of a 5-month-old son was allegedly murdered by an illegal criminal alien gang member on Christmas Eve. This...

President Trump wants to address the nation about the government shutdown on Tuesday night, and later in the week plans to travel to the southern border as part of his effort to persuade Americans of the need for a border wall — the sticking point in negotiations with Democrats who are eager to reopen shuttered agencies. The White House did not immediately respond to questions about a request to television networks to carve out time for an Oval Office address. A person familiar with the request said the White House had asked to interrupt prime time programming on Tuesday.

President Trump will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday in a bid to highlight border security, as he presses Democrats for wall funding amid the protracted standoff that triggered a partial government shutdown now stretching into its 17th day. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted the president’s travel plans on Monday. “President @realDonaldTrump will travel to the Southern border on Thursday to meet with those on the frontlines of the national security and humanitarian crisis. More details will be announced soon,” Sanders tweeted. The president’s visit will come on what will likely be the 20th day of the...

Democratic leaders continue to spar with POTUS Donald Trump and Republicans over funding for the president’s border wall — or fencing, or barriers — without offering any real solutions or alternatives. They are using language like “smart and effective” when talking about border security techniques and strategies that they do support, while dismissing a wall or any other sort of boundary out of hand as ‘ineffective’ and, well, not smart. As CNS News reports: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) went to the Senate floor on December 22—the first day of the ongoing partial government shutdown—to declare that his party...