By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While many people doubt President-elect Donald Trump can deliver on his promise to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it, his transition team has begun requesting documents and analysis on border walls and barrier construction. Reuters reports that the team also is requesting information about expanding immigrant detention and…
President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to build a wall along the U.S. border has been met with skepticism from people who live close to the border.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to build a wall has triggered a surge of Central American families flowing into the U.S. to escape poverty and warlike conditions.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Concerned about drug smugglers and illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. from Mexico, the federal government built a fence to curb the traffic. It didn’t work, Vice News reports. “We came with this 18-foot wall, and the very next day they had 19-foot ladders,” Border Patrol Agent Chris Cabrera recalled recently….
Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall at the border between the U.S. and Mexico has drawn criticism and support.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Donald Trump’s continued rhetoric about building a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border is far from enough to stop the increasing number of illegal immigrants from reaching America, said Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. “Border security alone cannot overcome the powerful push factors of poverty and violence that exist in Central America,”…
Border Patrol agents have found dozens of tunnels near the border of Mexico.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is warning Republicans that it’s a mistake to embrace Donald Trump plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
