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Border Security
early and often
Feb. 21, 2024
Mayorkas Impeachment Trial Will Be As Flimsy As the Charges Senate Democrats don’t want a real trial over the contrived claims against the Homeland Security secretary or a lengthy discussion of border policy.
early and often
Feb. 8, 2024
Is Wily Mitch McConnell Finally Out of Tricks? With a badly botched Ukraine border-security deal and Trump’s renewed domination of the GOP, it’s unlikely his leadership can survive to 2025.
early and often
Feb. 7, 2024
Mike Johnson’s Spectacular Day of Failure The Republican House Speaker managed to botch the Mayorkas impeachment and a measure to help Israel after killing a border-security deal.
early and often
Jan. 31, 2024
Doomed Border-Security Deal Was a Bad Bet for Kyrsten Sinema What happens when a consummate Senate deal-maker’s deal dies? She probably retires.
early and often
Jan. 29, 2024
It Won’t Be Easy for Democrats to ‘Flip’ the Border-Security Issue Whatever happens to the foreign-aid–border deal in Congress, Democrats need to build credibility on immigration policy without risking Latino support.
minneapolis protests
May 29, 2020
Trump Can’t Explain Away His Vile ‘Looting’ Tweet Despite his disingenuous attempt to walk back his threat toward Minneapolis protesters, it’s clear he just wanted to pour gasoline on the fire.
By Ed Kilgore
border security
Jan. 9, 2020
When the ‘Americanness’ of Iranian-Americans Is Conditional Reports that Iranian-Americans have been singled out for suspicion and extra questioning at a U.S.-Canada border crossing reveal a larger truth.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Trump Never Actually Believed in the Wall It seems unlikely that Trump actually thinks a wall is his best border security option. But now, he is stuck with it.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
immigration
Nov. 27, 2018
As Trump Screamed About the Border in ‘16, Unauthorized Immigration Was Dropping For all of the president’s demagoguery about Mexico, entries from that country declined steadily from 2007 to 2016, as did all border violations.
By Ed Kilgore
migrant caravan
Oct. 29, 2018
Trump to Send 5,200 Troops to Border for Preelection Stunt We are sending 5,200 troops (who aren’t allowed to enforce immigration law) to combat 3,500 unarmed asylum-seekers who are still 900 miles away.
By Eric Levitz
DNA Tests Are Being Used to Reunite Separated Migrant Families The practice is raising concerns among those worried about what the government will do with the results.
By Adam K. Raymond
Democrats Won’t Win By Getting ‘Tough’ on Illegal Immigration The Democrats’ liability on immigration has less to do with concerns about border security than it does with white fears of demographic change.
By Eric Levitz
Teenage Boy Missing After Running Away From Migrant Children’s Shelter in Texas A man claiming to be his father said he’s now in Mexico, but the incident raised questions about the care children are receiving in federal custody.
By Margaret Hartmann
select all
Sept. 26, 2017
If You’re an Immigrant, Homeland Security Is Going to Need Your Twitter Handle All immigrants will be required to turn over their social-media handles to the Department of Homeland Security, per a new policy.
By Paris Martineau
Perry Warns of ISIS Infiltrating Through Mexico And the Pentagon says there’s no evidence of that happening.
By Annie Lowrey
immigration
July 10, 2014
By Margaret Hartmann
crossing over
Aug. 12, 2010
Congress Passes $600 Million Border-Security Bill Schumer: “It will clear the path for restarting bipartisan discussions.”
By Nitasha Tiku