Illegal crossings at the southern border were lower in December 2024 than in December 2020, Border Patrol data showed.

Words like “alien” were banned, and politically correct language was mandated by the Biden administration as it presided over an unprecedented surge of illegal border crossings.

Under orders from President Donald Trump, 1,500 active-duty service members and additional air and intelligence assets are being deployed to the southwest border, Acting Secretary of Defense Robert ...

ET By Natasha Bertrand, Priscilla Alvarez, Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of additional active duty US troops are being ordered to the southern US border ...