Supreme Court: Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:31:36 +0000

US border wall

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico. The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the greenlight to begin work on four contracts it has awarded using Defense Department money. Funding for […]

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Senate seems to have votes to reject Trump’s wall move

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:26:41 +0000

US border wall at Nogales in Arizona

Opponents of President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border appear to have enough Senate votes to reject his move, now that Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky has said he can’t go along with the White House.

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Former US security officials to oppose emergency declaration

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:00:31 +0000

Woman at US border wall

A group of former U.S. national security officials is set to release a statement arguing there is no justification for President Donald Trump to use a national emergency declaration to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Trump criticizes California over suit against border wall

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:08:43 +0000

Donald Trump inspecting wall prototypes

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to criticize California’s lead role in a multistate lawsuit challenging his emergency declaration to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

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Adviser hints that Trump will veto disapproval of emergency

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:01:56 +0000

Donald Trump at White House Rose Garden

A top adviser to President Donald Trump indicated Sunday that Trump is prepared to issue the first veto of his term if Congress votes to disapprove of his declaration of a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Trump says he’s not thrilled with GOP-backed border deal

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:59:58 +0000

Trump says he’s not thrilled with GOP-backed border deal

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s “unhappy” with a hard-won agreement to prevent a new government shutdown and finance construction of more barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but he didn’t say he wouldn’t sign the measure.

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Trump says he’s not thrilled with GOP-backed border deal

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:59:58 +0000

Trump says he’s not thrilled with GOP-backed border deal

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s “unhappy” with a hard-won agreement to prevent a new government shutdown and finance construction of more barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but he didn’t say he wouldn’t sign the measure.

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump on the wall, and a ban on cows?

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:08:36 +0000

Donald Trump at El Paso rally

WASHINGTON — Let Democrats have their way, President Donald Trump suggested, and the United States will become a country without border security, airplanes or cows. Trump warned of a variety of dire consequences from the Democratic playbook as he rallied Monday night in the border city of El Paso, Texas, in a hall where banners […]

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Separated migrant families demand millions from US agencies

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:32:27 +0000

Separated migrant families demand millions from US agencies

Eight immigrant families who were separated under Trump administration policy filed claims Monday seeking millions of dollars in damages for what a lawyer called “inexplicable cruelty” that did lasting damage to parents and children.

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Trump tries to turn border debate his way with El Paso rally

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:18:19 +0000

Donald Trump

President Donald Trump is trying to turn the debate over a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border back to his political advantage as his signature pledge to American voters threatens to become a model of unfulfilled promises.

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