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The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded contracts totaling nearly $1 billion to replace short barriers with tall fences along the U.S.-Mexico border
April 10, 2019 -
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned on Sunday amid the administration's growing frustration and bitterness over the number of Central American families crossing the southern border
April 07, 2019 -
President Donald Trump's 2020 budget request would give the Justice Department $72 million to fund stronger enforcement of immigration laws and reduce the nation's backlog of asylum cases.
March 13, 2019 -
Bloomberg Government Homeland Security reporter Michaela Ross joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for an outline of the situation.
March 12, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is asking the Defense Department which military projects will lose funding due to Donald Trump diverting $3.5 billion from military construction accounts to build a wall on the southern border.
February 18, 2019 -
The U.S. borders have inundated news cycles in recent months. To find out what’s really going on, tune in to FEDtalk to hear a group of federal law enforcement professionals discuss what they experience at the border and what they need to do their mission.
February 06, 2019 -
If you want to know the best way to secure the border, why not ask the people who do the securing day-to-day? That's the suggestion from Tom Kochan, a management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
February 01, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, President Donald Trump hints that another government shutdown is likely after funding runs out again in three weeks.
January 28, 2019 -
Although still a couple of days short of the record set in 1995-96 for the longest shutdown, the ongoing Great Wall of Mexico government shutdown is getting a lot more attention than its predecessors.
January 07, 2019 -
Michael Hoefer, chief of the office of performance and quality at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, talks data optimization and winning a silver medal.
November 20, 2018 -
Children dressed in costume for a Halloween day naturalization ceremony at US Citizenship and Immigration Services on Wednesday.
November 01, 2018 -
With a possible governmentwide shutdown just 58 days away, survivors of previous time-outs are remembering how they coped, if they were ordered not to work, or to go to work without the guarantee of getting paid.
August 03, 2018 -
Unusually, the Senate is moving faster than the House this year on appropriations bills for 2019.
July 31, 2018 -
Between Donald Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin and still unresolved immigration issues, Congress is reacting — or in some cases remaining silent — on a wide range of challenges. Roll Call's David Hawkings talked with Tom Temin about it.
July 17, 2018 -
Terry Clower, director for the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, discusses how immigrants, especially long-term immigrants, make up a huge portion of the D.C. region's workforce, and how pushing immigrants out of the country could be a large economic injury for the area. Clower also explains how attracting business to Washington can work by making a place where employees will want to live.
July 09, 2018