Larry Mitchell Hopkins, the 69-year-old leader of the United Constitutional Patriots, an armed border militia group spreading conspiracies and rounding up asylum-seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border, has been taken into custody by the FBI. The New Mexico Resident allegedly illegal detained immigrants crossing the border while posing as United States Border Patrol. The organization has […]
It would take “something dramatic” in the coming days to persuade President Trump not to close the U.S.-Mexico border, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday, and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said the president’s threat “certainly isn’t a bluff.” The two senior staffers, appearing separately on Sunday morning talk shows, also […]
President Donald Trump intends to sign the border security deal to avoid another partial government shutdown, according to two sources who have spoken directly with the President. Trump said Tuesday that he was “not happy” with the tentative deal reached by congressional negotiators late Monday night that falhls far short of his original demands. Congress […]
As a drug crisis has moved Kensington to the center of a debate on how best to treat addiction, we’ve largely failed to see the connection to the crisis taking place on America’s southern border. Right now in the heart of Kensington, a throng of homeless heroin addicts is gathered beneath a bridge on Emerald […]
President Donald Trump is seizing on an attempt by 500 migrants to rush the southern border to use immigration as an issue to bolster his presidency at a critical political moment. Trump spent weeks ahead of the midterm elections warning that the United States was about to experience an invasion from a migrant caravan trekking […]
