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The City Tap Houses and Roofers Union will serve specialties this Saturday for National Watermelon Day. (Associated Press/File)

Customs officials seize around $1.5 million in cocaine hidden inside shipment of watermelons

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas listens to Raul Ortiz, Chief, U.S. Border Patrol, as he tours the section of the border wall with Mexico, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in La Joya, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, Pool)

Border Patrol chief pleads for more agents, disagrees with Biden halting border wall construction

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
U.S. Border Patrol agents patrol the Rio Grande by boat near the Mexican side of the river near Anzalduas Park, Friday, March 3, 2023, in Mission, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

Illegal crossings at southern border remained stable in February

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., questions Kiran Ahuja, director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, during a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Committee oversight hearing on U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the nation's largest employer, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Rep. Greene says cartels planted bomb on U.S. border, endangering agents

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
In this file photo, a U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz listens Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, at a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at Fort Brown Border Patrol Station in Brownsville, Texas. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald via AP) **FILE**

Border chief contradicts Biden DHS, says border is not under control

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Mexican Natioanla Guard prepare a search mission for four U.S. citizens kidnapped by gunmen at Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, March 6, 2023. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the four Americans were going to buy medicine and were caught in the crossfire between two armed groups after they had entered Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, on Friday. (AP Photo)

Bickering on violence divides U.S. and Mexico, adds new strain to tension between neighbors

By David R. Sands and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Farmworkers, who declined to give their names, break up ground, Thursday, July, 1, 2021, near St. Paul, Ore., as a heat wave bakes the Pacific Northwest in record-high temperatures. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

GOP senators blast DHS for hiking fees on farmers in order to fund asylum cases

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
A U.S. Border Patrol agent walk up to a new section of the border wall before the arrival of Acting Homeland Secretary Chad Wolf Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in McAllen, Texas. An investigation is underway after a Texas National Guard soldier allegedly shot and wounded a migrant during a struggle on the U.S-Mexico border this month. The quiet handling of the incident has drawn criticism from a Texas lawmaker and a former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

Feds charge border officer with using excessive force

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Marcos Marzo, second left, talks with his friends who came to say goodbye upon receiving the news that he obtained a permit to travel to the United States, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. A close relative told Marzo on Jan. 21 that he had applied online to sponsor his trip to Florida as required by the new parole program for Cuban migrants set up by the Biden administration. The next day the sponsorship had been confirmed and the day after that it was approved. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Biden's border 'parole' program in peril as congressional GOP plans vote to overturn

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
In these undated photos provided by the Penitas Police Department, from left are sisters Maritza Rios, 47, and Marina Rios, 48, and their friend, Dora Saenz, 53. On Friday, March 10, 2023, authorities said the three women haven't been heard from since traveling from Texas into Mexico on Feb. 24 to sell clothes at a flea market. (Courtesy of Penitas Police Department via AP)

3 women missing in Mexico after crossing from Texas

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a news conference in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, on new border enforcement measures to limit unlawful migration, expand pathways for legal immigration, and increase border security. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he needs more money to handle border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden walks with U.S. Border Patrol agents along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows some support for changing the number of immigrants and asylum-seekers allowed into the country. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say the level of immigration and asylum-seekers should be lowered, while about 2 in 10 say they should be higher, according to the poll. About a third want the numbers to remain the same. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden's budget calls for 350 more Border Patrol agents

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Federal judge unloads on Biden border policies as 'divorced from reality'

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Human Trafficking of Illegal Immigrants at the Border Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Fighting human trafficking and battling Biden's open border

By Hannah Davis
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a news conference in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, on new border enforcement measures to limit unlawful migration, expand pathways for legal immigration, and increase border security. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Alejandro Mayorkas is a liar who blames open border on climate change

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Two child sex offenders arrested while crossing Texas border with Mexico

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden delivers remarks to the 2023 International Association of Fire Fighters Legislative Conference, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In reversal, Joe Biden weighs detaining migrant families

By Colleen Long and Elliot Spagat - Associated Press
The U.S. border fence stretches across Rusty Monsees' 21.1-acre property on April 30, 2017, in Brownsville, Texas. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP, File)

Immigration activists rip Biden over get-tough border proposal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
A family walks by a wall covered by a symbol from the Mara Salvatrucha, of MS-13 gang in Ilopango, El Salvador, on Aug. 21, 2014. In communities across El Salvador, the Mara Salvatrucha and their arch-rivals, the 18th Street Gang, are de facto rulers. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) **FILE**

MS-13's smuggling operations in Mexico help gang members reach U.S.: DOJ

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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