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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the US military will be used to guard the US-Mexico border. “We are going to be guarding our border with our military. That’s a big step,” Trump told reporters gathered at the White House. “We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally, disappearing, and by the way never showing up for court.” The President’s comments appear to take aim at current US policy which requires border agents to catch then release family units who arrive at the border from noncontiguous countries. He also said he had spoken with Secretary of Defense James Mattis...

President Bush has refused to meet with border law-enforcement officials from Texas for a second time. His response to their request came in the form of a letter Monday, angering both lawmakers and sheriffs. In fact, some Republican members of the House, upset by what they call the administration's seeming lack of concern for border security, are preparing to hold investigative hearings in San Diego and Laredo, Texas, early next month. Members of the House Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation hope to expose serious security flaws that could potentially lead to terrorist attacks in the country, said Rep. Ted...

We were 5,000 feet up in the mountains along the border California shares with Mexico at 2 a.m., freezing in 30-degree weather with the wind howling in our faces. Eight shivering young men, illegal aliens in their late teens and early 20s, sat on the cold ground in handcuffs, grateful to be caught. One of them pleaded with a Border Patrol agent to find his girlfriend, Maria, who was still stuck on one of the cliffs. Illegal aliens, like the ones I saw in handcuffs, continue to enter the United States from the Mexican border at the rate of 8,000...

Gov. Janet Napolitano is escalating her fight with the federal government after a top official at the U.S. Justice Department refused to provide Arizona more money this year to house illegal entrants convicted of state crimes. Tim Nelson, the governor's chief legal counsel, said Friday Napolitano is insisting on a meeting with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. That comes after someone lower in the Justice Department rebuffed the governor's demand for $118 million to cover the state's costs. But Nelson said if that meeting produces no better results - or Gonzales refuses to talk - the governor is not prepared to...