Tag: border
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Trump insists he ‘knows nothing’ about Hitler and doubles down on claims immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’: Ex-President says remarks aren’t racist, slams claims he’s read Mein Kampf and says border crossers are ‘filling our schools’
Former President Donald Trump said in an interview that he knows “nothing” about Hitler as he repeated comments that immigrants “poison the blood of the nation,” flatly rejecting rhetorical comparisons to the Führer. He was asked about critics who said he was using “Hitlerian language” in his repeated use of the “poisonous” language to describe…
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Speaker Mike Johnson demands Biden use executive actions and ‘suspend’ immigration to fix border chaos: Top Republican calls for return to Trump policies as crossings hit historic levels
Published: 2:39 PM EST, December 21, 2023 | Updated: 2:39 PM EST, December 21, 2023 As immigration talks in Congress stall, House Speaker Mike Johnson sent a letter to President Biden urging him to use executive power to stem the flow of migrants at the southern border . The speaker instructed the president to end…
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White House accuses Texas of ‘demonizing’ migrants and putting their lives at risk with Greg Abbott’s new law allowing cops to detain and deport border crossers
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called a new law in Texas “extreme” and said it will endanger migrants trying to cross the southern border. On Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill that would allow local and state law enforcement agencies to arrest and deport illegal border crossers without federal government intervention. It…
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Republican says he’s mad Trump wasn’t ‘TOUGHER’ when he said migrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’: Senator Tommy Tuberville insists ex-president should have gone further because of what is happening at the border
While many Republicans cringed at Donald Trump’s description of migrants in language similar to Adolf Hitler, Senator Tommy Tuberville insisted the former president’s comments were not harsh enough. The former president said last weekend that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” “I’m angry that he wasn’t tougher than that, because have you seen…
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Migrant crossings from Mexico up nearly one third in December with 167,000 stopped so far as even DEMOCRAT congressman in Texas calls for tougher measures to ‘secure the border now’
The Biden administration is now closing legal ports of entry along the US-Mexico border as large numbers of migrants seek to enter the country, drawing condemnation from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Over the weekend, Customs and Border Patrol suspended cargo crossings in Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, to shift workforces to…
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Border security negotiations STALL as Republicans accuse Democrats of keeping them in the dark: Chances for a deal before Christmas are slim and aid to Ukraine and Israel won’t come until January
Published: 12:28 EST, December 18, 2023 | Updated: 1:17 PM EST, December 18, 2023 Talks over a border security and foreign aid package continued through the weekend — but no deal is in sight and the year will end without a vote. On Sunday, GOP leader Mitch McConnell sent an update to senators thanking James…
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Lindsey Graham says he couldn’t ‘care less’ how Donald Trump describes migrants after ex-president paraphrased Hitler calling illegal border crossers ‘poison’
Senator Lindsey Graham has criticized Donald Trump’s language in describing illegal immigrants, claiming he is more concerned about addressing the border crisis than using politically correct terminology. It comes as Democrats accuse Trump of invoking Adolf Hitler by calling migrants a “poison” to American society. Additionally, a new Fox News poll released Sunday shows that…
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Zelensky arrives on Capitol Hill to save $61 BILLION American aid package: Ukrainian leader meets Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell – as House Republicans insist they want more for the border before they approve more cash to Kyiv
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded for life-or-death aid to continue his country’s fight against Russia. At a private briefing, he told senators that his citizens would resort to guerrilla war if support dried up. The president met with Senate leaders, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and held a briefing for all senators in an extraordinary lobbying…
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Republicans want kids under 14 to be fingerprinted at the southern border to END ‘use and abuse’ of children by traffickers
Published: 4:24 PM EST, December 8, 2023 | Updated: 4:33 PM EST, December 8, 2023 Republicans are pushing for a new bill that would require children under the age of 14 to be fingerprinted at the southern border to end the “use and abuse” of children by human traffickers. Single migrant men “buy” children and…