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Better border policy is possible without a wall

Arrests For Illegal Border Crossings Hit 46-Year Low

U.S. Rep. Carbajal tours ‘haphazard’ border detention facilities after two migrant deaths

Twitter reacted to Donald Trump's fear-mongering address to the nation

Racist Stephen Miller reportedly wrote the hate speech that Trump gave last night

The networks were suckered by the "national emergency" threat

Trump all but told reporters his speech and border trip weren't news. Networks still ran the speech.

Democratic leaders respond to Trump's 'immigration crisis' speech

Trump's Homeland Security chief drums up fake immigration crisis, ignoring the real one she created

Trump holding onto threat of emergency declaration, or ... anything but actually making a deal

Nobody knows what the administration's new Syria policy is, including the White House itself

Roger Waters considers performing Pink Floyd’s The Wall on US-Mexico border: "Musicians have an absolute right, a duty, to open their mouths to speak out"

Nina Khrushcheva Trump's wall with Mexico follows in the footsteps of authoritarian leaders throughout history: From China to Germany, walls have been used for centuries to spread fear, closed-mindedness and isolationism.

Trump’s Border Wall is a Vortex of Stupidity that Trump and the GOP Can’t Escape

Texas landowners prepare wall fight; Trump to visit border

If the shutdown lasts two more weeks, the cost to the economy will exceed price of Trump’s wall

White House Aides Explore Alternative Ways to Pay for Border Wall. One option: Halt military construction projects and divert those funds for an emergency

At White House, Empty Desks and Unpaid Bills as Trump Shows No Sign of Relenting: Only 156 of 359 full-time White House workers have jobs considered essential during a shutdown.

Pompeo Speech Lays Out Vision for Mideast, Taking Shots at Obama: Last month, President Trump announced that the U.S. won its fight in Syria and would be soon leaving. But his national security team has given different statements about the policy it believes the U.S. should pursue.

Pompeo's Cairo speech panned as ‘tone-deaf,’ ‘hyper-partisan,’ ‘offensive’

Trump and Pompeo Embrace Autocrats and Disparage Opponents at Home

America’s Most Famous Novel About Bad Meat Was Actually About Immigrant Labor Abuses

Yes, The President Can Declare A 'National Emergency' To Build A Wall

Trump’s militarized land seizure for border wall is more complicated than ‘I can do it if I want’

Briahna Gray is a columnist and senior politics editor at The Intercept.

Amid border wall debate, third drug tunnel found in less than a month along Arizona border

White House Sought Options to Strike Iran: State and Pentagon officials were rattled by the request

Traffickers at the El Chapo trial say drugs aren't smuggled through open parts of the border

CAN THE PRESIDENT DECLARE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY TO BUILD THE WALL?

The debate over emergency powers and the border wall

Trump just begged Dems to come back in a very telling government shutdown Twitter rant

The Soviet Experience in Afghanistan: Getting History Right

Malaysia’s sultans must pick a new king: The previous one abdicated after marrying a Russian beauty queen

LIGHT ON THE HORIZON: NOW IS THE TIME

The Biggest Nuclear Threats of 2018 Will Follow Us into the New Year

A Yale Law professor just gave Trump terrible news about his “national emergency” wall plan

Trump Vows He’ll ‘Never Ever Back Down’ On Border Security: Trump said he had dismissed a proposal from Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to reopen the government for several weeks and continue dealing with Democrats over money for the wall.

FBI Agents Say the Shutdown Is a Threat to National Security: Nearly 5,000 FBI special agents, intelligence analysts, attorneys, and professional staff have been furloughed.

21 Fascinating Facts That Make People See Russia In A Completely Different Light

Trial Begins for Aid Workers Accused of Leaving Food, Water in Desert for Migrants: Federal officials are doing their best to criminalize No More Death's efforts to stop immigrants from dying while crossing into the U.S.

Kamala Harris shreds AG nominee William Barr over his support for Trump’s wall

West Virginia Republicans unveil plan to give $10M for Trump's wall

China Is America’s Biggest Rival, And Russia Isn’t Even Close: While the media fawns over Russia’s failing authoritarianism, they ignore China’s much more successful brand of authoritarian nationalism.

Mosque Tax: German Muslims are financially on their own foot

Dyer: Kurds betrayed again, this time by Trump

It's game over for the YPG in Syria

Kurds should capitalize on sympathy stirred by new Syria crisis

The perils of trusting America: A reminder for Asian allies

Trump's tweets on children dying in U.S. custody are a new low - The ...

Another migrant child death, we need a border truth commission

Why the Hell Are We Locking Up Migrant Kids at All? There is no jail humane enough to hold these children.

Amos Oz, Israeli novelist who wrote of striving and struggle, dies at 79

Amos Oz, Israeli Author and Peace Advocate, Dies at 79

Is there a crisis at the border?  President Trump says there is a problem, but it may be one of his own making

All's not well at the southern border

The U.S. Doesn’t Have a Border Crisis. Trump’s Campaign Does.

Trump Has Defeated Himself: The president, trapped without a decent exit in a predicament of his own making, will yield everything and get nothing.

The U.S. Isn’t Really Leaving Syria and Afghanistan: Even if American troops come home in a timely fashion, they will likely return before long.

Do refugees have to stay in the first safe country they reach?

School lockdowns: How many American children have hidden from a shooter

Four women found guilty after leaving food and water for migrants in Arizona desert

Meet Europe’s Left Nationalists: The rise of leaders like Sahra Wagenknecht and Jean-Luc Mélenchon marks a momentous turn against free movement in Europe—at the expense of  immigrants.

Will Mexico’s New President Seek Justice for the Disappeared?  Thousands are missing in the country’s drug war—many of them seized by government security forces.

National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America 2019

Around the world, Trump’s style is inspiring imitators and unleashing dark impulses

Four Accused of Plotting to Attack Muslim Community

State Department cancels border security conference due to shutdown over border security

Report Says Shutdown Is Impeding F.B.I.’s Law Enforcement Efforts: Thomas O’Connor, the president of the F.B.I. Agents Association, said that the resources available to support the bureau were “stretched to the breaking point.”

Congress agitates to end relentless shutdown: The Senate is prepping dueling votes while House centrists are pushing Pelosi to counter Trump with her own compromise proposal.

WHITE HOUSE MEMO: At the One-Issue White House, the Standoff Over a Border Wall Displaces Other Priorities.  President Trump announced on Saturday a plan that would provide temporary protection from deportation for some immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion in funding for a border wall.

People in Arizona are facing prison time for leaving food and water for migrants: "This verdict challenges not only No More Deaths volunteers, but people of conscience throughout the country."

Exclusive - Trump border 'wall' to cost $21.6 billion, take 3.5 years to build: internal report

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