President Trump issued a number of executive actions Monday relating to immigration. CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca has more on the border policies now unfolding.Jan 21, 2025 Facebook Live Now CBS News 24/7 CBS News Baltimore CBS News Bay Area ...
But Trump’s plan is both bad policy and bad politics. Here’s why. Despite a significant percentage increase in illegal immigration from Canada into the U.S., the numbers are a tiny fraction of the traffic at the southern border. The problem along the northern border seems manageable, and...
In 2006-2008, former President George W. Bush sent 6,000 guardsmen to Southern border states, with a cost of 1.2 billion dollars. The troops only assisted with less than 11.7 percent of total apprehensions at the border and 9.4 percent of marijuana seized during that time. For the Obama a...
Yet in tonight's speech, Trump was confident that he would come around. As he spoke about the "beautiful" wall that he wants to build along the southern U.S. border, Trump reiterated his earlier claim. "Mexico will pay for the wall. Believe me. A hundred percent. They don't kn...
In addition to sharply criticizing the Biden administration's handling of the record number of migrant crossings reported along the southern border in recent years, Trump and DeSantis have feuded over which candidate has the toughest immigration platform. ...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close the southern border amid an ongoing partial government shutdown, resuming his push for the funding of a long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall. ...
Donald Trump will tell anyone who'll listen that that the United States faces an extraordinary security crisis along our southern border. The situation is so dire, the president likes to argue, that he's felt the need to dispatch U.S. troops, shut down the government, and circumven...
President Trump is sending hundreds of troops to the southern border for a wide-ranging mission that poses new challenges and raises questions about the military’s role in handling migration, traditionally a law enforcement responsibility. Until now, t
Trump used his inaugural address to outline sweeping border security measures, including reinstating the "Remain in Mexico" policy and designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The president also pledged to send troops to the southern border to combat what he called a "dis...
"Mexico's own security dilemmas internally and on their southern border with Guatemala highlight the shared premium both the U.S. and Mexico place on border security," Quintana said. "It reflects a policy that is hard on all forms of immigration, with a particular attention on illegal immigra...