Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) announced that a party of eight U.S. Senators—three Democrat, four Republican, and one Independent—will visit the U.S.-Mexico border in El-Paso, Texas, to observe first hand what Sinema called “Washington’s failure.” Those joining them Monday and Tuesday will be Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Thom Tillis…

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday introduced a bill to establish a 2,500-member reserve border force and increase agents’ pay by 14 percent amid the crisis at the southern border. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the legislation co-sponsored by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.),…