Border Security

Mexican cartels are adjusting strategy in response to Trump's FTO designations and military pressure. For the first time in a generation, cartel commanders fear American retaliation. That's progress, but only if Washington holds the line.

House Democrats voted 207-213 to block DHS funding while Congress received active Iranian threat briefings. Their reason: opposing Secretary Kristi Noem. Not oversight, political leverage over homeland security at the worst possible moment.

Former DEA acting administrator Jack Riley, 30 years watching cartel violence, says he's never seen a turf war this intense. When the most experienced man in the room says that, another round of congressional hearings is not the answer.

Trump's new DHS nominee is a career enforcement officer who spent years at the sharp end of border security operations, not in congressional offices or think tanks. That's the right call, and the critics who hate it prove why it was necessary.

Republicans spent years promising border security and holding DHS funding hostage. Now Trump is reportedly backing a Senate bill that funds most of it, and the base should be asking why the leverage was never used.

The Department of Homeland Security inches toward shutdown while Congress pats itself on the back for buying time. Our border isn't a scheduling conflict, it's a war front.

Elite programs compete for a Final Four berth while elite bureaucrats compete to avoid doing their jobs. At least basketball has a scoreboard.

Asylum work permits are being handed out before claims are verified. This isn't a bureaucratic oversight, it's an engineered vulnerability.

The Obama-era DHS chief wants Washington to stop the funding wars. He's not wrong about the dysfunction. He's completely wrong about the cure.

The testy exchanges at Mullin's DHS confirmation hearing weren't chaos. They were a precise map of where the real battles over border security will be fought.

A Democratic Senate candidate pledging to secure the border held a campaign event at a store selling 'Abolish ICE' merchandise. The contradiction isn't subtle.