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Federal agents nabbed nearly 50,000 illegal immigrants along the southern border in August, marking the worst month in a year as the clampdown that had accompanied the coronavirus pandemic begins to fade. The flow was almost all single adults who, unlike the families that surged into the U.S. last year, are not looking to get…

Crowdsourced Border Wall Donors Unsettled By Fraud And Money Laundering Charges Brian Kolfage (left) and Stephen Bannon host a Wall-A-Thon to raise money for a privately funded border wall. YouTube screengrab On June 24, 2018, former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon stood on a ridge in Sunland, N.M., kicking off a 3-day telethon with a view…

Rural Oregonians are ready to bolt for Idaho after nearly two months of daily protests and rioting in Portland. Move Oregon’s Border for a Greater Idaho, a group that seeks to take eastern and rural counties out of Oregon and put them into Idaho, reached a milestone Saturday. It announced that volunteers have collected enough…

Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan has forcefully denied claims that his officers were concealing their identity and exacerbating the unrest in Portland, Oregon."It's just outrageous and it's reckless," Morgan said Saturday of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's complaints about his agents.Wheeler has accused the administration of sending in troops as part of a political strategy that ultimately "ratcheted up the tension on…

MEXICO CITY — For years, officials in northern Mexico watched as a border wall rose just north of the Rio Grande, and as the White House threatened repeatedly to freeze cross-border traffic. Now, with coronavirus cases soaring in the southwestern United States, it’s Mexican leaders who are asking for tighter border enforcement to keep their communities…