Border, Illegal Immigration
Border patrol presentation reveals plan to release illegal crossers en masse into U.S. communities(The Center Square) – Roughly six weeks before testifying Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Chief Border Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez held a meeting with local… Read More
Border
Congressman wants to impeach DHS secretary over border crisis(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, a Republican from Arizona, said Wednesday he will introduce impeachment articles against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for dereliction… Read More
Illegal Immigration
Wyoming bill would allocate resources to fund border wall(The Center Square) – Republican lawmakers in Wyoming are advancing legislation that would appropriate more than $5 million toward border security efforts in Texas, Arizona and Florida. SF0166,… Read More
Illegal Immigration
20 states sue Biden administration over ‘illegal visa system’(The Center Square) – Twenty states led by Texas sued the Biden administration Tuesday over another immigration policy they argue is illegal. A new U.S. Department of Homeland… Read More
Illegal Immigration, Terrorism
Border Patrol agents apprehend 38 known terrorists in first 3 months of fiscal 2023(The Center Square) – U.S. Border Patrol agents have arrested a record 38 people on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database during the first three months of fiscal 2023, according… Read More
Illegal Immigration
Texas border sheriff sends SOS seeking aid: ‘Illegal aliens wreaking havoc in our communities’(The Center Square) – Kinney County, Texas, Sheriff Brad Coe is pleading for help from his colleagues in three states as his department is overwhelmed by the surge in foreign… Read More
Biden administration, Immigration
GOP congressmen demand immigration parole answers(The Center Square) – A group of Republican U.S. senators and House members want the Biden administration to explain what they called a reckless decision to expand immigration parole… Read More
Immigration
42 Texas counties now support declaring invasion at southern border(The Center Square) – At least 42 counties have now declared an invasion or expressed support for Texas declaring an invasion at the southern border. More are in… Read More
Biden administration, Immigration
Gov. Abbott to Biden during El Paso trip: These five policies will help secure border(The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday urged President Joe Biden to implement five policies to help secure the U.S. southern border, hand delivering him a… Read More
Biden administration, Immigration
Biden announces border visit, expands legal immigration(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden said Thursday he will visit the southern border Sunday. The announcement came in a speech on illegal immigration, in which Biden… Read More
Immigration
Another record: Nearly 314,000 apprehensions, gotaways at southern border in December(The Center Square) – December was another record month for Border Patrol agents tasked with apprehending foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S. through the southwest border. Agents apprehended… Read More
Immigration
Illegal entries into Vermont surge in NovemberBorder Patrol agents, residents save Mexicans, Haitians from dying from freezing temperatures (The Center Square) – Foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S. are increasingly entering through Vermont at an… Read More
Immigration
Abbott calls for investigation into groups assisting with illegal entry into USRecord 2,600 people enter El Paso in 24-hour period on Sunday ahead of Title 42 ending (The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called for an investigation… Read More
Immigration
New Operation Lone Star task force now tracking and apprehending gotaways(The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has launched a new Operation Lone Star task force to track and apprehend gotaways – the term used by Border Patrol… Read More
Immigration
7 more counties express support for declaring invasion at border; now total 40(The Center Square) – Forty Texas counties have now declared an invasion at the southern U.S. border with Mexico, or have expressed support for Texas declaring an invasion. More… Read More
Immigration
Florida files SCOTUS brief ahead of oral arguments over DHS not deporting violent criminal aliens(The Center Square) – Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a lawsuit filed by Texas and Louisiana seeking to… Read More
Crime, Immigration
Florida law enforcement officers seize enough fentanyl to kill state’s entire population(The Center Square) – In the past few months, Florida law enforcement officers have seized enough fentanyl to kill the state’s entire 22 million population. Attorney General Ashley… Read More
Immigration
Texas sheriff: Biden’s border policies ‘have been an unmitigated disaster’(The Center Square) – Law enforcement officers in a rural county in Texas with a population of roughly 15,000 are working together to thwart unprecedented criminal activity they say… Read More
Immigration
Operation Lone Star task force ‘holding the line’ against cartel traffickers but ‘can’t stop everyone’(The Center Square) – A 20-agency Operation Lone Star Task Force is making headway interdicting cartel and gang activity stemming from the Texas-Mexico border along a major trafficking route… Read More
Immigration
MSU president gets political at naturalization ceremony, telling new citizens whom to vote forThe president of Missouri State University this week told a group of newly naturalized citizens to vote – but essentially not for people who dislike immigrants. “Unfortunately,… Read More