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    Senate Passes Border Funding Megabill
    The Senate passed a major immigration enforcement funding bill early Friday morning, marking a major step forward for the effort to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term. The chamber voted 52-47 to pass the $70 billion party-line budget bill,…
    George Caldwell
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    DHS Secretary Blasts Senator for Calling ICE Unconstitutional: ‘If You Don’t Like the Laws, YOU Can Change Them’
    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin fired back at Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing over claims that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is lawless, dangerous, and unconstitutional. “We’re doing the job that Congress gave us the authority to do,” Mullin said. “If you don’t like the laws, you can change…
    Joseph Buff
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    Federal Fentanyl Crackdown Drops Overdose Deaths to Record Low
    As fentanyl overdose deaths fall to levels not seen since 2019, Republicans in both the executive and legislative branches say they intend to push those numbers even lower. State-level data reinforces the trend. In Pennsylvania, a state with a higher average rate of overdose deaths than most states, overdose deaths dropped by 60% in 2025,…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    CBP Makes Massive Meth Seizure at California Border Crossing
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 1.4 tons of methamphetamine in a routine commercial truck inspection at a California border crossing. The seizure points to a broader trend of transnational criminal networks using legitimate trade infrastructure to smuggle industrial-scale narcotics into the United States. On April 14, CBP officers…
    Mehek Cooke
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    $113.4B vs. $37.8B: Congress Spent 3 Times as Much on Ukraine as on Customs and Border Protection
    From February 2022 to December 2023, Congress appropriated about three times as much money for its response to the conflict in Ukraine as the federal government spent on Customs and Border Protection. Congress approved approximately $113.4 billion in spending related to Ukraine conflict during that period, while the government spent only $37.82 billion on Customs…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    Biden Grew National Debt $3.67 Trillion in 2 Years, Yet Underfunded Border Protection
    President Joe Biden, working with a Democrat-controlled Congress, increased the federal debt in 2022 by approximately $11,374 per every American worker. On Dec. 31, 2021, according to the U.S. Treasury, the federal debt was $29,617,214,856,051.75. By Dec. 30, 2022, it was $31,419,689,421,557.90. So, in calendar year 2022, the federal debt increased by $1,802,474,565,506.15. As of…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    Chris Magnus’ Opus: A Record-Setting Disaster for the Head of Border Protection
    Chris Magnus was forced to resign as head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Nov. 12. He was unprepared for the job, never had the support of the workforce, and cared more about internal “social justice” than executing CBP’s mission. Not surprisingly, he utterly failed to secure the U.S. border in his tenure of…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Customs and Border Protection Implements New Measures at US-Mexico Border as Coronavirus Spikes
    Individuals crossing the U.S.-Mexico border will be subject to secondary inspections after a survey of people crossing the border found 60% of trips were nonessential, a local NBC affiliate reported. The survey was reportedly given to 100,000 U.S. citizens and permanent residents, and found that over 60% of the trips made were considered nonessential, NBC…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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