North Korea fired on South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island in the Yellow Sea on Tuesday, killing two South Korean soliders, according to the Yonhap News Agency. Col. Lee Bung-woo, a spokesman for the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Yonhap that artillery shells began falling shortly after 2:30 p.m. and that South Korea returned fire with [...]
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) may be getting tired of prodding Department of Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano. He’s been dealing with her bureaucracy since spring on the issue of Mexican border security. On Thursday, Pryor nudged again. As chairman of a subcommittee of the Department of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Pryor sent Napolitano a [...]
President Obama signed into law a $600 billion border security bill Friday that will beef up surveillance on the U.S.- Mexico border. In a statement released Thursday, the president said the bill will make “an important difference” as his administration “continues to work with Congress toward bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform to secure our borders, and [...]
When the Senate passed a $600 million border security bill Thursday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said one of his goals with the measure was to jump start efforts to pass immigration reform in Congress. Republicans have refused to consider an immigration bill this year, saying the U.S.-Mexico border must be secured before they’d even consider [...]
Call it a rare bipartisan moment if you like, but the U.S. House easily approved a $600 million bill Tuesday authorizing more than 1,000 additional border agents and surveillance drones to patrol the border with Mexico. With the House back from a break for a one day session, the legislation was passed quickly under suspension [...]
In one of their last acts before a summer recess, U.S. senators approved a $600 million package to beef up security along the Mexican border with 1,500 additional guards and unmanned surveillance drones. The bill, which passed on a voice vote, would be financed by raising fees on foreign-based personnel companies that bring skilled workers [...]
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