The Dark Side of America

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday amid a duel over border security policy ahead of the 2024 election. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday amid a duel over border security policy ahead of the 2024 election. The bill would add 1,500 new border patrol personnel, boost asylum officers by 4,300, increase Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention beds by 50 ...

US Army is slashing thousands of jobs in major revamp to prepare for future wars. The U.S. Army is slashing the size of its force by about 24,000, or almost 5%, and restructuring to be better able to fight the next major war, as the service struggles with recruiting shortfalls that made it impossible to bring in enough soldiers to fill all the jobs. The cuts will mainly be in already-empty posts — not actual soldiers — including in jobs related to counter-insurgency that swelled during the Iraq ...

New York City, Chicago and Denver see their budgets stained due to the influx of immigrants from the southern border. According to Axios, increased spending by city halls piles more pressure on the federal government to support their budgets. New York City spent $1.45 billion on migration in the 2023 fiscal year, according to S&P Global Ratings, and is to spend $4.2 billion and $4.9 billion for FY2024 and FY2025, respectively, on housing newcomers crossing the US-Mexican border. Chicago spe ...

The head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says he fears that a drumbeat of mass shootings and other gun violence across the U.S. could make Americans numb to the bloodshed, fostering apathy to finding solutions rather than galvanizing communities to act. Director Steve Dettelbach’s comments to The Associated Press came after he met this past week with family members of some of the 18 people killed in October at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, by a ...