Trump said Monday he would declare a national emergency at the border, which will free up military funding to build more sections of a border wall, support operations to stop border crossings, and “send troops” to the Southern Border to “repel the disastrous invasion of our country.”

A wide-ranging series of executive orders that President Donald Trump has promised to beef up security at the southern border Monday began taking effect soon after he was inaugurated Monday, making good on his defining political promise to crack down on immigration.

Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the president the ability to go around Congress and unlock federal funding to crack down at the border.

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump on Monday declared a national border emergency and ordered the U.S. armed forces to repel "forms of invasion" at the U.S.-Mexico border, including illegal migration and drug trafficking.

President Donald Trump announced multiple immigration executive orders on his first day in office, which could have negative economic impacts.

Federal agents are investigating after a US Border Patrol agent was shot and killed Monday afternoon on the highway in Vermont.

One suspect, a German national, is deceased, and a second suspect, a U.S. citizen, sustained injuries, authorities said.