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President Barack Obama will likely have to send National Guard troops to the southern U.S. border to assist Border Patrol agents with the influx of illegal immigrants crossing into the country, said Rep. Adam Kinzinger. "At the end of the day, the president's probably, if he really wants to solve the border crisis, at least in the short term, is probably going to have to deploy National Guard soldiers to alleviate what the Border Patrol's having to do," the Illinois Republican told "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday. Kinzinger said the Obama administration needs to ensure that the Department of Defense...

The signs at the Texas border offer a glimpse of the enormity of the problem of unaccompanied minors trying to sneak into the US. The instructions are printed in English and Spanish, of course — but also, surprisingly, they’re instructions for help are also in Chinese. Hundreds of Chinese teens are slipping into the US a year, immigration groups say, mostly through Central America and Cuba.