Trump urges House action on border

President Donald Trump implored anxious House Republicans to fix the nation's broken immigration system but did not offer a clear path forward amid the growing uproar over his administration's decision to separate migrant families at the border.

White House Fence Jumper Wanted to Make Trump Cry: Police

The man who jumped a fence at the White House complex Monday afternoon told police he was on a mission from God and wanted to attack President Donald Trump, according to charging documents. Alexander Thomas Miner, 29, of Danville, California, is accused of jumping a concrete barrier with a fence on top of it that separates E Street from the Ellipse on the south side of the complex despite signs reading "Restricted Area, Do Not Enter."

Trump Today: President says Democrats want illegal immigrants to a infesta the country

This column provides a daily update on key presidential actions as well as comments, whether spoken aloud or on Twitter, by President Trump. Like the stock market, the deadline for Trump Today action is 4 p.m. Eastern time, even as we acknowledge that substantive news can and does occur after hours.

Border Patrol ripped girl with Down’s syndrome away from her…

An undocumented immigrant family from Guatemala talks to a volunteer after their arrival to Announciation House, an organisation that provides shelter to immigrants and refugees, in El Paso, U.S. January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo /File Photo Joining a chorus of critics as diverse as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and former First Ladies Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray denounced President Donald Trump's immigration policy, which has resulted in 2,000 kids being forcibly separated from their families - including a little girl with Down's syndrome whose father is a legal U.S. resident.

New GOP plan: Hold kids longer at border _ but with parents

Republicans on Capitol Hill frantically searched on Tuesday for ways to end the Trump administration's policy of separating families after illegal border crossings, with the focus shifting on a new plan to keep children in detention longer than now permitted - but with their parents. House GOP leaders are revising their legislation amid a public outcry over President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" approach to illegal crossings.

‘Election-year nightmare’: WSJ freaks out that…

In both a critical and panicky editorial, the editors of the Wall Street Journal frantically have called on President Donald Trump to end his "zero tolerance" policies at the U.S. border with Mexico that has resulted in immigration officials tearing children away from their amnesty-seeking parents - outraging conservatives and liberals alike. According to the Journa l, the GOP is looking at an "election-year nightmare," if Trump doesn't call off the detention of immigrant children in camps along the border.

White House defends immigration policy as outrage grows over children

Immigrant children, many of whom have been separated from their parents under a new "zero tolerance" policy by the Trump administration, are being housed in tents next to the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, U.S. June 18, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake The Trump administration defended its hardline immigration policy at the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday as furor grew over the separation of immigrant parents and children, including video of youngsters sitting in concrete-floored cages.

In reversal, Baker not sending flight crew to southern border

In a sudden reversal, Gov. Charlie Baker's administration on Monday canceled its plan to send Massachusetts National Guard members and equipment to the southwestern U.S. border in light of the federal government's "inhumane" practice of separating undocumented children from their families, the governor's office said. Baker announced on June 1 that he would send a UH-72 Lakota helicopter and two military analysts to pilot the chopper to the southwestern border by the end of the month in support of President Donald Trump's mission to curb illegal border crossings and drug trafficking.

REFILE-UPDATE 7-White House defends immigration policy as outrage grows over children

The Trump administration defended its hardline immigration policy at the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday as furor grew over the separation of immigrant parents and children, including video of youngsters sitting in concrete-floored cages. Democrats blasted such treatment as "barbaric," while a few of President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans also voiced concern as the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives moved toward voting later this week on two pieces of immigration-related legislation.

Unapologetic Trump digs in on immigration despite outrage

An unapologetic President Donald Trump defended his administration's border-protection policies Monday in the face of rising national outrage over the forced separation of migrant children from their parents. Calling for tough action against illegal immigration, Trump declared the U.S. "will not be a migrant camp" on his watch.

Trump’s long history of don’t blame me-ism

It's Democrats who wrote the laws, President Donald Trump argued, trying to explain why his administration is OK with the practice of separating families of undocumented immigrants at the border. "Congress could fix this tomorrow," DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in the administration's defense at the White House Monday.

As outrage grows over children, White House defends immigration policy

The Trump administration on Monday defended its hardline immigration policy at the U.S.-Mexico border as furor grew over the separation of immigrant parents and children, including video of youngsters sitting in concrete-floored cages. Democrats blasted such treatment as "barbaric," while a few of President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans also voiced concern as the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives moved toward voting later this week on two pieces of immigration-related legislation.

Analysis: GOP runoff candidates embrace Trump ideas

Two candidates in a Republican primary runoff for a congressional race in central Mississippi agree on many big issues, including their overall support for President Donald Trump. Michael Guest and Whit Hughes are both cautious in any criticism of the man in the White House.