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Republican governors warn of ‘Imminent Danger’ in Biden’s open border policies
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Republican governors warn of ‘Imminent Danger’ in Biden’s open border policies

Thirteen governors descend upon Eagle Pass along southern border By Sydnie Henry | Texas Scorecard EAGLE PASS—Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gathered with 13 other Republican governors to assert the states’ right to self-defense as President Joe Biden’s border crisis continues. “Joe Biden does not need more legislative authority,” said Abbott, citing the laws already in place that Texas is attempting to follow. “He just needs a backbone to step up and do his job and secure the border.” Abbott held a press conference in Shelby Park Sunday afternoon, the site of an ongoing battle between the federal and state governments after Texas seized Shelby Park last month. Shelby Park has long been a hotspot for illegal crossings, and since the state took it over and fortified it, cro...
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‘Amnesty’ or border crackdown? What’s in the Senate’s $20 billion immigration deal?
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‘Amnesty’ or border crackdown? What’s in the Senate’s $20 billion immigration deal?

By David Sivak | Colorado Springs Gazette Senate leadership released the text of a bipartisan compromise on the border Sunday evening, the product of four months of painstaking negotiations. Elements of the deal, brokered by a bipartisan working group, had been teased in the days leading up to its release; however, the granular details offered by the text itself will determine how much support the bill receives in the Senate. The package, part of a larger national security supplemental, will be considered as soon as Wednesday. The negotiations have been a lightning rod for controversy ever since they began in earnest, with apparent leaks threatening to derail the legislation before it ever came to light.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORA...
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Speaker: ‘The President has executive authority right now’ to act on border crisis
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Speaker: ‘The President has executive authority right now’ to act on border crisis

By Jack Birle | Colorado Springs Gazette House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) placed blame for the border crisis on President Joe Biden, insisting the president should act on solving the crisis as Senate negotiators are slated to release the text of their proposed border security bill on Sunday. Johnson put the ball in Biden's court to act on the border, arguing he has the authority to enact measures the House GOP has pursued through its H.R. 2 bill, which has not been considered by the Senate while speaking on NBC News's Meet the Press on Sunday. "I have been saying what the requirements are to fix the problem. I don't care if they call the legislation HR 2 or not. What we're saying is you have to stem the flow. The President has executive authority right no...
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GOP governors and ‘God’s Army’ caravan descend on border with urgent call to end immigration crisis
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GOP governors and ‘God’s Army’ caravan descend on border with urgent call to end immigration crisis

By Anna Giaritelli | Denver Gazette Fifteen Republican governors and a conservative convoy of truckers that has dubbed itself "God's Army" will descend on the southern border this weekend as part of separate events to draw attention to the illegal immigration crisis. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) will host leaders from 14 other red states in the McAllen, Texas, area of the Rio Grande Valley on Sunday afternoon for a briefing on the state's effort to bolster security at the Mexico border and hold a press conference about the impact of "President Joe Biden's reckless open border policies." In the lead-up to Abbott's border event, Americans frustrated with the more than 9 million people who have been observed or encountered while illegally entering the country...
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Biden’s border: 7-plus million who have crossed outnumbers Colorado population
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Biden’s border: 7-plus million who have crossed outnumbers Colorado population

By Kyle Sammin | Colorado Springs Gazette Where is the line between Texas and Mexico? It’s a question that captivated Americans in 1846 but one that most of us thought was resolved definitively in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo two years later. Instead, here in 2024, the Biden administration is conducting a bold experiment in postnationalism by reducing border enforcement to a series of checkpoints and pinky swears as it ushers in a record number of illegal immigrants from around the world. It is a slow-motion crisis that has, finally, become a top concern in voters’ minds.  But is the federal government’s failure to act a prelude to civil war? It’s not likely despite overheated rhetoric in the press. President Joe Biden’s determination to roll ba...
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El Paso official to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston: Keep asking for federal funds | Border Crossroads
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El Paso official to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston: Keep asking for federal funds | Border Crossroads

By Nicole C. Brambila | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS Editor's note: Welcome to Border Crossroads, a series of dispatches from America's southern border, where reporter Nico Brambila and multimedia producer Tom Hellauer are chronicling the crisis that is spilling over into Denver and other interior cities.     EL PASO, TEXAS — El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino offered some advice to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston: Keep pushing for federal money to address the crisis brought on by surges of immigrants crossing the border. El Paso Deputy City Manager, Mario D'Agostino, discusses how his city obtained federal funds to address the immigration surges in recent yearsPlay Video “Don’t give up on the funding requests,” D’Agostino said. "Continuing to push for the fund...
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Voters back Texas border wall, feel Biden starting ‘civil war’
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Voters back Texas border wall, feel Biden starting ‘civil war’

By Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE A sizable majority of the public supports Texas’s construction of a wall along its border with Mexico and feels that President Joe Biden’s efforts to stop it are the first step toward civil war. In a sobering analysis of the escalating topic, 69% of likely 2024 voters said that they support the border wall and razor-wire fence that Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has ordered. Among those, a majority, 51%, said they “strongly” back Texas in its fight to stop illegal immigration and the surge of "gotaways" getting past federal border agents. The White House won the Supreme Court's support for stopping Texas, but not voters. Besides fighting voters, Biden has clashed with members of his own party over ...
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House conservatives press Mike Johnson to attach border security to Senate funding bill
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House conservatives press Mike Johnson to attach border security to Senate funding bill

By Cami Mondeaux and Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE House conservatives are urging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to make last-minute changes to a stopgap funding measure, seeking to attach Republicans' border security bill to the final text. Members of the House Freedom Caucus met with Johnson on Thursday, just hours before the lower chamber is set to vote on a continuing resolution that would avoid a partial government shutdown over the weekend. Conservatives pressed Johnson to amend the resolution text to include House Republicans' signature border bill, H.R. 2, in the final version of the funding extension — a request they said the speaker is "considering." “[Rep. Andy] Harris and I just went and spoke with the speaker about ...
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US court will reconsider forcing Texas to remove Rio Grande migrant barrier
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US court will reconsider forcing Texas to remove Rio Grande migrant barrier

By Daniel Wiessner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said it would reconsider a recent decision requiring Texas to remove a 1,000-foot-long (305-meter) floating barrier it had placed in the Rio Grande river to deter migrants from illegally crossing the border with Mexico. The decision by the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans sets aside a divided three-judge panel's December ruling, which had sided with the Biden administration and said that the state could not install the string of buoys without permission from the federal government. That ruling was a setback for Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, who has strongly criticized Democratic President Joe Biden's handling of record numbers of migrants crossing the border ille...
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