Border

Border Patrol lost 1,900 agents to resignations in 2025. Meanwhile, cartels are recruiting veterans at $50K sign-on bonuses. This is not a recruitment failure. It is a policy signal.

CBP encountered 178,000 illegal crossings in April 2026. That is down from the 250,000 peak but still triple pre-2021 levels. And somehow this is not the lead story on every network.

Border Patrol seized 847 pounds of fentanyl in April alone. Agents in the field tell me the surge is not letting up.

A 34% increase in encounters at the southern border this year outpaces last year's already-record pace. New data from CBP reveals the scale of the enforcement challenge facing the Biden administration.

The volume is down at the line. The intelligence is up at the desk. Anyone telling you the border is fixed has not stood inside a Forward Operating Base lately.

Texas border communities report overwhelming arrivals, exhausting law enforcement capacity and social services. Local officials plead for federal support as processing centers overflow.

The enforcement operations got the coverage. The catch-and-release that followed didn't. Here's the part of the story nobody wanted to tell.

Texas's lawsuit over border enforcement authority isn't just about immigration. It's the most significant Tenth Amendment challenge in a generation.

February encounter numbers are in. 187,000. And every major network led with a celebrity trial instead.

Trump just handed Republicans a roadmap to the midterms. The question is whether the party has the spine to follow it.

Democrats refused to fund DHS even as Iran struck. The party that claims to care about national security just showed you their hand.

House Republicans hold the majority by a thread, and some of their own are about to hand it back to Pelosi's caucus out of spite.