By: Victor Davis Hanson – townhall.com – January 10, 2019 Estimates suggest that there are 11 million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally. Millions more emigrated previously and are now U.S. citizens. A recent poll revealed that one-third of Mexicans (34 percent) would like to emigrate to the United States. With Mexico having a...

By: the Editors – nationalreview.com – January 10, 2019 President Trump says he is considering declaring an emergency at the border to unlock military funds to build a fence (a.k.a. wall). It’s not clear how serious he is, although anonymous White House aides have been quoted saying they believe this will be his ultimate way out of the shutdown fight....

By: Katie Pavlich – townhall.com – January 09, 2019 President Trump made his first address to the nation from the Oval Office Tuesday night. He spoke directly to the American people about the ongoing crisis at the southern border and touched on everything from national security to U.S. communities impacted by crime and drugs. Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump The...

By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – January 8, 2019 There is indeed a simmering crisis at our southern border. It is not an influx of terrorists, and Trump administration representatives have tripped themselves up by trying to make the numbers show large numbers of suspected terrorists caught at the border. It is not a wave of immigrants from Mexico as...

By: Jarrett Stepman, Rachel del Guidice, & Fred Lucas – dailysignal.com – January 09, 2019 President Donald Trump made the case Tuesday night for the $5.7 billion he wants Congress to approve for a wall expanding the physical barrier along the southern border to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs. The Daily Signal examined five of the president’s...

By: Joe Concha – thehill.com – January 7, 2019 All major networks on Monday confirmed that they will air President Trump’s Oval Office address on the government shutdown live, after some initial uncertainty over how the organizations would handle the speech. CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Fox Business and CNN all confirmed to The Hill that the prime-time speech will...

By: Michael Brown – stream.org – December 27, 2018 Over the years, I have rarely addressed the question of immigration. That’s because I have no expertise in the matter and find it much better to solicit the wisdom of experts. Why give my opinion if it’s no better than yours (or, perhaps, less worthy than yours)? So, this article has...

By: Staff – newsmax.com – December 28, 2018 The partial U.S. government shutdown is likely to continue well into 2019 after House Republicans said Thursday they didn’t plan any votes this week and President Donald Trump said most federal employees losing pay because of the closure are Democrats. There was no sign of any progress toward a plan to fund...

By: Brandon Morse – redstate.com – December 13, 2018 I’m not sure whether to be happy or angry about this. To the Washington politicians, a government shutdown is apocalyptic. People will die, buildings will crumble, muh roads won’t be maintained, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! To the vast majority of us, however, we honestly couldn’t care less. The...

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – December 12, 2018 What You’re Not Hearing about the Slowly Growing Border Wall/Bollard Fence Trump in yesterday’s meeting with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi: “One thing that I do have to say is, tremendous amounts of wall have already been built, and a lot of — a lot of wall. When you include the...