Border

Zogby Report Card: Pollster urges public to let Obama ‘do his job,’ avoid ‘potshots’

Paul Bedard · July 19, 2014 9:00 am

Protesters gather outside the Mexican Consulate, Friday, July 18, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Prospects for action on the U.S.-Mexico border crisis faded Thursday as lawmakers traded accusations rather than solutions, raising chances that Congress will go into its summer recess without doing anything about the tens of thousands of migrant children streaming into South Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Flow of child immigrants at border slowing for now

Alicia Caldwell · July 19, 2014 2:22 am

Central American leaders to meet with Obama

Central American leaders to meet with Obama

Jim Kuhnhenn · July 18, 2014 10:46 pm

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is determined to move legislation out of his chamber that would address the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children who have illegally crossed the border in the hopes of being granted some form of indefinite amnesty to remain in the United States. But what House Republicans might pass this month now appears headed for a roadblock in the Democratic Senate.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Congress appears headed for impasse on border legislation

David M. Drucker · July 18, 2014 10:43 pm

Kristol Podcast: Putin, Netanyahu, and Obama

TWS Podcast · July 18, 2014 6:02 pm

Immigrants who have been detained while crossing the border are housed inside the McAllen Border Patrol Station in McAllen, Texas, Tuesday. (AP/Los Angeles Times, Rick Loomis, Pool)

Beltway Confidential

Report: ‘Vast majority’ of asylum claims granted

Byron York · July 18, 2014 3:00 pm

Boys and young men line up to receive a meal provided by the government, at The Great Family group home in Zamora, Michoacan state, Mexico, Thursday, July 17, 2014. After a police raid on the refuse-strewn group home Tuesday, residents of the shelter told authorities that some employees beat and raped residents, fed them rotting food or locked them in a tiny "punishment" room. Shelter residents were still being kept at the home while officials look for places to transfer them. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Some defend founder of Mexican shelter

Olga Rodriguez · July 17, 2014 11:08 pm

The fence marking the border between Mexico and the United States is photographed Wednesday in La Paloma, Texas. (AP/Valley Morning Star, David Pike)

Why GOP is stuck on deporting illegal minors

Byron York · July 17, 2014 10:24 pm

Speaker of the House John Boehner of Ohio, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 17, 2014. Boehner said he can't envision a U.S. response to the border crisis that doesn't involving speeding up the process of returning unaccompanied Central American children home. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Prospects fade for resolution on border crisis

Erica Werner · July 17, 2014 9:05 pm

VIDEO: Democrats say changing law won’t stop immigration surge

Ed Sykes · July 17, 2014 7:33 pm

House Speaker John Boehner says he is not overly optimistic that Republicans and Democrats can come together to resolve the border crisis before Congress adjourns at the end of July for a month-long break. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

John Boehner not optimistic about a quick solution to the border crisis

Sean Lengell · July 17, 2014 5:36 pm

VIDEO: Immigration deal may hang on 2008 law

Steve Doty · July 17, 2014 5:35 pm