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Republican AGs visit US-Mexico border wall as Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ clears expansion funding
YUMA, ARIZONA – Republican attorneys general from 11 states visited the U.S.-Mexico border wall in remote Yuma, Arizona, this week touting a more than 90% decrease in illegal crossings since President Donald Trump began his second term.
Their visit came a day before the House narrowly passed Trump’s «big, beautiful bill,» which in part allocates $46.5 billion to revive construction of the wall, which at its current stage covers just a fourth of the approximately 1,900-mile-long stretch separating the United States from Mexico. In Yuma, a city of just 110,000 people, local officials briefed the Republican attorneys general of Kansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Alabama, Montana, Iowa and Indiana on how an average of 1,500 people were illegally crossing the border a day during the first six months of the Biden administration. That’s dropped to about four daily illegal crossings since Trump took office.
In addition to the border wall itself, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach — chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association – told Fox News Digital the administration needs other «force multipliers,» especially with the task of carrying out the «largest interior removal since the Eisenhower administration.» He announced an additional three GOP states entered into 287(G) agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which means local and state deputies and officers are trained to exercise federal law enforcement powers, including making immigration-related arrests, initiating removal processes, conducting investigations and tapping into ICE databases.
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Republican attorneys general from 11 states visited the border wall in Yuma, Arizona, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Danielle Wallace/Fox News Digital)
«The thing the Trump administration needs the most right now is force multipliers,» Kobach said. «Even if we doubled the number of Border Patrol agents at ICE stations, we still wouldn’t have enough. This border wall, which I’m looking at, is one force multiplier at the border. The other big force multiplier is state and local law enforcement signing 287(g) agreements and then helping ICE in the interior. And that’s where the red states are leading the way.»
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said 540 kilograms of fentanyl and 850 kilograms of cocaine were trafficked into the Palmetto State originated from Mexican drug cartels. One kilo alone is enough to kill half a million people.
«This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night. I have two teenage kids in high school. When you hear about parents losing a kid in an overdose, it really strikes at your core. And so it’s not just about law enforcement, it’s about national security,» Wilson told Fox News Digital. «As a 29-year veteran of the Army, an Iraq war veteran. I think in terms of national security, as well as law enforcement. This right here, what happens here, President Trump’s policies here have empowered local law enforcement and local and state prosecutors like myself to be able to more effectively combat the illicit activity, starting with Mexican drug cartels and gangs like Tren de Aragua.»
Wilson said it’s important to fortify a «digital border,» noting how Mexican drug cartels, Chinese nationals and other illicit criminal organizations launder the proceeds of human and drug trafficking and other crimes using platforms such as WeChat. Wilson has partnered with North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, a Democrat, and attorneys general from four other states in a bipartisan effort to target the Chinese app allegedly linked to the international fentanyl trade.
The 11 Republican attorneys general in Yuma highlighted the importance of making the trip to the southern border despite their home states not directly bordering Mexico. Under the Biden administration, the Republicans argued that every state became a border state with the trafficking of fentanyl and other deadly drugs, as well as people across the border.
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«In the dark days of the Biden administration, this part of the border saw 1,500 illegal crossings a day. Today? Just four. That’s leadership,» Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman said. «In Kentucky, we lost 1,400 lives last year to drugs coming over this border. That’s not abstract—it’s empty chairs at kitchen tables. I’m here to thank the men and women who wear the badge, who’ve made this border secure again.»
Republican attorneys general hold up makeshift fencing used during the Biden administration surge in Yuma, Arizona, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Danielle Wallace/Fox News Digital)
«Alabama may not be a border state, but we’ve seen the cost of an open border – fentanyl deaths, rising crime. The difference now? It’s not the law that changed, it’s the leadership,» Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said. «Border encounters are down 93%, gotaways down 95%. That’s the result of letting immigration enforcement do their jobs. We’re no longer the last line of defense—we’re partners in restoring the rule of law.»
«When federal officials can’t do their jobs, every state becomes a border state—even Indiana,» Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said. «We were the first non-border state to sue the Biden administration over its lawless immigration policies. Now, under new leadership, morale at the border has skyrocketed. I’m here not just for our law enforcement, but for the teachers overwhelmed by the fallout, for the parents and professionals caught in a broken system. Enough is enough.»
A stop on the tour included seeing pallets of $2 million worth of border wall supplies paid for under Trump’s first term that the Biden administration prevented federal contractors from erecting – something Kobach categorized as «dereliction of duty» and «deliberate efforts to keep our border open.» The Republican attorneys general also heard from the local hospital system, which incurred $26 million in unreimbursed care costs during a six-month period between December 2021 and May 2022 primarily due to treating migrants. At the peak of the crisis, approximately 350,000 illegal aliens crossed the border through the Yuma sector in a single year under the Biden administration.
The surge caused $1.2 million in losses to three family farms in the region, as migrants camped out and defecated around crops. Local officials underscored the national food security risks given Yuma produces 2,500 semi-loads of leafy greens per day during peak season. The Marine Top Gun School brings thousands more U.S. Marines to Yuma every six months, but live-fire drills had to be shut down due to the surge in illegal crossings near ranges, local officials told the attorneys general, highlighting how military readiness was also impacted due to the Biden border crisis.
A stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border wall seen in Yuma, Arizona, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Danielle Wallace/Fox News Digital)
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, whose state borders the U.S.-Canada border, said he knew many of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents who were called down to the southern border during the Biden administration crisis.
«Many of them were rotated down here to put in pretty lengthy shifts. I heard the challenges. They were very, very frustrated, and a lot put in retirements. We had a lot of agents who just flat quit because they were demoralized,» Knudsen said, noting how Border Patrol agents who briefed the attorneys general in Yuma reported how the «difference is absolutely night and day» since Trump has returned to office with the amount of resources and support at their disposal.
«During the Biden administration, Montana’s fentanyl seizures went up 20,000% – cartel fentanyl piling into Montana up 20,000%. During those same four years, Montana’s official count of overdose fentanyl deaths went up nearly 2,000%,» Knudsen said. «Every state has become a border state. That’s why Montana cares.»
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Utah Attorney General Derek Brown stressed how his state was involved in the largest bust in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) history announced earlier this month. Authorities seized over 400 kilograms of fentanyl.
«We have highways traversing our state and when drugs cross the border here they reach Utah within a matter of hours. I recently met in fact a couple whose son overdosed on fentanyl. The availability of fentanyl that came from here in this area is mind-boggling,» Brown said.
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Putin rejects Trump’s Vatican push as Kremlin accuses him of being ‘emotional’: envoy Kellogg
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected President Donald Trump’s push to have the next round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks at the Vatican – an idea the president has floated since the newly appointed American pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, suggested it earlier this month.
Special Envoy Keith Kellogg confirmed the news while speaking on «Fox & Friends» Tuesday morning when he said, «The Russians didn’t want to go there» and suggested that instead the talks could next be held in Geneva.
Though it remains unclear when another round of talks will be held as Russia has yet to agree to the U.S.’s peace proposal and its foreign ministry on Tuesday claimed it was still working on its memorandum of terms.
US President Donald Trump steps off Marine One in Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, May 25, 2025. Trump is returning to the White House after spending the weekend in New Jersey. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump on Tuesday took to social media to issue a warning to Putin and said he’s «playing with fire.»
«What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD,» he wrote on Truth Social. «He’s playing with fire!»
Similarly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Moscow of «playing games» after it carried out the largest drone strike ever in the three-year-long war in a Sunday attack in which Russia launched 335 drones and nine cruise missiles at civilian targets.
The attack prompted Trump to condemn Putin as «crazy» in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social.
«I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him,» Trump said Sunday. «He has gone absolutely CRAZY!
He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever,» he added.
Overnight, Russia launched its largest aerial assault on Ukraine since the war started. May 26, 2025. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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Trump took it one step further and warned Putin that should he attempt to take «all of Ukraine…it will lead to the downfall of Russia.»
The Kremlin clapped back at Trump and accused him of being «emotional.»
When asked about the president’s comments, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, «We are really grateful to the Americans and to President Trump personally for their assistance in organizing and launching this negotiation process.
«This is a very crucial moment, which is associated, of course, with the emotional overload of everyone absolutely and with emotional reactions,» he added, according to a Reuters report.
Relatives show photos of missing soldiers to POWs who came back from Russian captivity during an exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine, in Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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But Trump didn’t limit his verbal attack to Putin in his social media post and claimed Zelenskyy was «doing his country no favors by talking the way he does.»
«Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop,» he added, though it is unclear what Zelenskyy said that prompted this reaction.
More than six months after the Democratic Party suffered major setbacks in the 2024 elections, the party is seeking a path to escape the political wilderness.
Part of that effort includes a recent gathering by top party consultants and donors trying to figure out how Democrats can improve outreach to male and working-class voters.
President Donald Trump won back control of the White House while Republicans flipped the Senate and defended their fragile House majority in November, and the GOP made gains among Black and Hispanic voters, as well as younger voters – all traditional members of the Democratic Party’s base.
«Everything we’ve done up to this point has resulted in re-electing Donald Trump,» longtime Democratic strategist and communicator Joe Caiazzo told Fox News Digital.
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Then-Vice President Kamala Harris delivers her presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 22, 2024 in Chicago. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
«If anyone tells you that we don’t have to course correct, they don’t know what they’re talking about,» added Caiazzo, a veteran of Sen. Bernie Sanders 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.
In the face of Trump’s sweeping and controversial moves since his return to the White House in January, an increasingly angered and energized base of Democrats is pushing for party leaders to take a stronger stand in leading the resistance to the president and Republicans.
The anger directed not only at Trump and Republicans, but also at fellow Democrats, appears to be a factor in the party’s polling woes, with Democratic Party favorable ratings sinking to historic lows.
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden at the DNC. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin vows the party will compete in all 50 states going forward.
In an interview earlier this month on «Fox News Sunday,» Martin highlighted that the party’s focus right now is «squarely on making sure that we stand up for hardworking Americans who are being left behind in this Trump economy.»
A 2024 election DNC postmortem is currently underway, with the findings expected to be issued later this year. However, grabbing the spotlight in recent days was a gathering hosted by the Democrat-aligned super PAC Future Forward at a luxury resort along the California coast.
Among the strategy discussions at the gathering was a $20 million effort titled, «Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.»
The recommendations of the effort, which is code-named SAM, included having Democrats drop what is described as a «moralizing tone» toward male voters, changing the party’s language used toward men and purchasing more ads on video games as part of male outreach.
Some former key staffers on the 2024 campaign of former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, who replaced Biden as the party’s nominee last summer, heavily criticized the effort, which was first reported by the New York Times and later confirmed by Fox News.
«Instead of studying working-class voters and men, why doesn’t the Democratic Party donor class go out and meet some? What the hell is this?» James Singer, a spokesman for the 2024 campaign, wrote in a social media post. «As a Democrat, it’s embarrassing.»
It was a similar message from Ammar Moussa, another veteran Democratic strategist and communicator who worked on the Biden and Harris campaigns.
«This is embarrassing. Truly,» Moussa wrote on X.
Democrats have long had a problem attracting male voters in presidential elections. Trump won the male vote by 12 points over Harris in the 2024 presidential election, and according to the Fox News Voter Analysis, that margin ballooned to 15 points among men 45 and older.
Fast-forward to this spring, and the Democrats’ ratings stood underwater in the latest Fox News national poll at 41% favorable and 56% unfavorable in a survey conducted April 18-21.
That is an all-time low for the Democrats in Fox News polling, and for the first time in a decade, the party’s standing was lower than that of the GOP, which stood at 44% favorable and 54% unfavorable.
The figures were reversed last summer, when Fox News last asked the party favorability question in one of its surveys.
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The Fox News poll was far from an outlier.
The Democratic Party’s favorable ratings were well in negative territory in a Pew Research national survey – 38% favorable, 60% unfavorable – conducted in early April and at 36% favorable, 60% unfavorable in a Wall Street Journal poll in the field a couple of weeks earlier.
Additionally, national polls conducted in February by Quinnipiac University and March by CNN and by NBC News also indicated the favorable ratings for the Democratic Party sinking to all-time lows.
However, there is more.
Confidence in the Democratic Party’s congressional leadership also sunk to an all-time low, according to a Gallup poll conducted early last month.
The confidence rating for Democrats’ leadership in Congress stood at 25% in the survey, which was nine points below the previous low of 34% recorded in 2023.
The semi-annual Harvard Youth Poll, which was released late last month, indicated that approval ratings for Democrats in Congress among Americans aged 18-29 nosedived.
An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted in mid-April indicated that more respondents trusted Trump (40%) than Democrats in Congress (32%) to handle the nation’s main problems.
Additionally, a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted late last month suggested Republicans hold a significant advantage over Democrats on two top issues: the economy and immigration.
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«If Democrats want to be competitive in this country and build lasting majorities in both chambers and be competitive for the White House, we’ve got to broaden the tent,» Caiazzo insisted.
He lamented that Democrats have «become hyper-focused on a certain set of issues that only speak to a certain set of people while letting the most important issues of the day fall by the wayside. Every single day, Democrats should be focused on how we make things better for working people. And the way we deliver that message has got to meet people where they are.»
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