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As the “migrant caravan” surges through Mexico toward the U.S. border, U.S. officials are debating how to handle the mass of people once they arrive and demand entry into the Promised Land. Tensions are high inside the Trump White House, The New American reported yesterday, with the president’s aides and officials arguing about the president’s options. But a former federal prosecutor says debate is unnecessary. Trump can close the border. The Law, the Court Case, and the Criminal Flood Writing first at the Daily Caller and then speaking on Breitbart Radio, Sidney Powell, former Assistant United States Attorney and Appellate...

Fellow American, President Obama has promised that his immigration executive actions aren’t ‘amnesty.’ He claims that his actions are nothing but an attempt to refocus manpower towards dealing with real criminals. Apparently, crossing the border illegally isn’t a ‘real crime.’ The President promises to increase enforcement along the border, but all we’ve been seeing is more of the same catch-and-release tactics that get Americans killed. Don’t believe me? I’d like to introduce you to Apolinar Altamirano. This 29 year-old illegal alien has been in and out of police custody for years. In 2012, he was arrested and CONVICTED of burglary....

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas (AP) -- This Dallas suburb became the first Texas city to pass tough anti-immigration measures, prompting fears of sanctioned discrimination and racism. City Council members unanimously approved fines for landlords who rent to illegal immigrants, making English the city's official language and allowing local authorities to screen suspects in police custody to check their immigration status. The council made the series of 6-0 votes without discussion Monday night and took comment from the public afterward. A proposal to penalize businesses that employ undocumented workers was not voted on during the meeting. Hundreds of opponents of the ordinances...

Oklahoma City (AP) - Republican gubernatorial candidate Ernest Istook takes aim at Governor Brad Henry's immigration policies today, accusing the Democratic incumbent of not doing enough to fight illegal immigration and end public benefits for undocumented aliens. Henry spokesman Paul Sund replies that delays in immigration reform policies are the fault of Istook and his colleagues in the G-O-P-controlled Congress. Istook is leaving his 5th Congressional District seat to run for governor. Istook says Henry has done little to crack down on illegal immigrants while governors in other states are taking sweeping action. Istook pointed to laws in Colorado and...

I wrote Senator Larry Craig, one of my senators from Idaho, a direct letter in March regarding the immigration issue. It is posted on the internet HERE I received a letter in the mail yesterday from Senator Craig (I had received an email from Senator Crapo earlier), wherein Senator Craig detailed a response to my issues. In that response he expressed a healthy desire for a stronger border security but expressed doubt that the border could be sealed, and that massive deportations could be accomplished because they would also cripple major U.S. industries. Therefore he felt a guest worker program...

At one time, only the staunchest advocates for cracking down on illegal immigration backed the idea of putting National Guard troops along the porous Arizona-Mexico border. But now the idea that was rejected in the past as being outside the National Guard's responsibilities has the blessings of Arizona's Democratic governor and cleared one half of the Republican-led Legislature. --- snip ---

AUSTIN, December 6, 2005 — Rio Grande Valley sheriff’s offices will receive a combined $1.1 million in the coming weeks as part of a statewide program to strengthen border security, Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday. Cameron, Hidalgo and Starr are among 16 border counties that will each receive $367,500 to deter illegal immigration and prevent border-related crime, according to Perry’s office. Perry first announced he would send more money to the border earlier this year after the ongoing string of violent deaths in Nuevo Laredo put law enforcement agencies along the border on alert. In all, $6 million will go...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Hispanic leaders say the Arkadelphia community was traumatized by the deportation last month of poultry plant workers who had to leave young children behind, but that hasn't stopped some of the immigrants from returning. A pregnant woman who was separated from her husband and two small children and deported to Mexico on July 26 has already returned to Arkadelphia, and she is just one of several trying to reunite with family back in Arkansas. Cesar Compadre, a physician at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and head of the Hispanic aid organization La Casa, said...

Karen Krebbs had an armed escort while she was out nights last week at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. She's not a law-enforcement agent and she doesn't dabble in anything illegal. She's a conservation biologist with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, studying an endangered population of nectar-feeding bats. Researchers along Arizona's border these days must balance their desire to study wildlife in the Sonoran Desert - where the chance to observe long-protected desert-dwelling populations proves an irresistible lure - with a growing fear of theft by desperate border crossers or violence from drug and people smugglers. The fears are fueled by...

President Bush yesterday moved aggressively to resurrect his plan to relax rules against illegal immigration, a move bound to anger conservatives just days after they helped re-elect him. The president met privately in the Oval Office with Sen. John McCain to discuss jump-starting a stalled White House initiative that would grant legal status to millions of immigrants who broke the law to enter the United States.