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Today's News About Border Security

Defund Hate Coalition Rejects Calls for Additional ICE and CBP Funding
by: Defund Hate Watch Network
May 1, 2019
“We reject calls for any additional funding for ICE, CBP, and other agencies involved in immigrant detention and processing, who already have bloated budgets to carry out the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

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NIJC Urges Members Of Congress To Reject White House Request For More Money For Immigration Jails And Border Militarization
by: National Immigrant Justice Center
May 1, 2019
“Congress must not fall for this administration’s rhetoric that building more prisons and infrastructure to block asylum seekers and other immigrants from protection is somehow ‘humanitarian aid,’” said NIJC Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy. “Conflating this administration’s policies with real humanitarian aid is an insult to the communities and humanitarian organizations who have actually worked to support the people whose lives have been torn apart by violence and, increasingly, by the U.S. government’s failed anti-immigrant policies. We call on members of Congress to dismiss this request out of hand.”

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Border Situation Requires Long-term Solutions
by: Immigration Forum
May 1, 2019
The White House has requested $4.5 billion in emergency aid from Congress to address the increasing number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, highlighting the dire need for sustainable solutions.

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Chairman Thompson Statement on the Emergency Supplemental Budget Request
by: Committee on Homeland Security
May 1, 2019
“House Democrats understand that there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, and we stand ready and willing to provide necessary resources to help fix this challenge and alleviate the suffering of thousands. But this crisis is one largely of the Trump Administration’s own making, and we will not appropriate more funds that will add to the chaos and make the problem worse. We cannot forget that this Administration has acted in bad faith when it comes to all issues related to the border.

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CWS Denounces Trump’s Plan to Dismantle Asylum Protections for Families Seeking Safety
by: Church World Service
May 1, 2019
Asylum saves lives. President Trump will stop at nothing to block families fleeing violence from their right to rebuild their lives in safety. A great nation, the most generous nation in the world, does not punish or charge families who have lost everything for life-saving protection. The president’s proposed restrictions are heartless and un-American.

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Members of Congress Visit the U.S.-Mexico Border in Yuma, Arizona
by: Andy Biggs (R-AZ, 5th)
April 24, 2019
Last week, Congressman Andy Biggs led a congressional delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border to better understand the escalating crisis caused by illegal immigration. Congressman Biggs was joined by Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Sean Duffy, Rep. John Joyce, Rep. Duncan Hunter, Rep. Dusty Johnson, and Rep. Pete Stauber. During the trip, the delegation met with Angel parents, Border Patrol agents, DEA officials, ICE agents, Immigration Court judges, and Customs officers. Members of the delegation released the following statements:

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Trump makes new threat to send soldiers to US-Mexico border
by: Senator Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
April 24, 2019
President Donald Trump made a new threat Wednesday to send armed soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Texas border experts call foul on rules of engagement for troops at border
by: Conservative Review
April 24, 2019
Mexican soldiers detaining and disarming our active-duty soldiers on our own soil is a bigger story than what either the government or media is making of it. We spend roughly $716 billion on the military every year and spent trillions in the Middle East, but our own territory remains unsafe not only for our ranchers, but evidently for our own active-duty military.

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Militia leader at the border said members were training to kill Obama, Clinton and Soros, FBI said
by: Washington Post
April 23, 2019
The leader of an armed militia that scours the southern border for undocumented migrants had once claimed that his group was training to assassinate former president Barack Obama, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, the FBI said.

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Armed volunteer militia group detains migrants at the border
by: Mass Live
April 20, 2019
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wants members of a volunteer militia group arrested for detaining immigrants at gunpoint and impersonating U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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