Immigration
Immigration and border security realities: continued successes for Operation Lone Star, but record number of dead(The Center Square) – Texas law enforcement officers working through the state’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, continue to thwart human smuggling activity as U.S. Customs and Border… Read More
2022 election
Attorney General Eric Schmitt: Missouri voters want a fighter in U.S. Senate but Busch Valentine is tax-and-spend liberal ‘heiress’JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – With the 2022 midterm elections less than two weeks away, Missourians want a fighter to represent them in the U.S. Senate, “not another tax-and-spend liberal.”… Read More
Crime, Immigration
Halloween warning: Beware rainbow fentanyl pills hidden in candy boxes(The Center Square) – From coast to coast – from California to New York, from Texas to Florida – law enforcement officers are warning parents about rainbow fentanyl pills… Read More
Immigration
Florida officers break up sex trafficking ring stemming from illegal border crossings(The Center Square) – Officers with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office rescued eight women who were forced into sex trafficking in Florida by smugglers who illegally brought them into… Read More
Immigration
U.S. record: 2.7 million Border Patrol enforcement actions in fiscal 2022(The Center Square) – A record 2.7 million enforcement actions were made by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in fiscal 2022, according to new data released late… Read More
Immigration
ICE agents apprehend illegal foreign nationals with multiple DWI convictions, criminal histories(The Center Square) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested several individuals in the Houston and Harlingen field offices as part of an immigration enforcement operation called “Operation… 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
OLS officers apprehend over 700 people in one night, catch a man wanted by Interpol(The Center Square) – Texas law enforcement officers working through Operation Lone Star are continuing to thwart criminal activity at the southern border, making record numbers of apprehensions including… 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
Immigration
Report: ICE spent over $131.8 million on technology for foreign nationals released into U.S. to self-report to immigration hearingsOf 3.3 million with pending cases before immigration courts, ICE can only monitor 5%, or 100,000 people (The Center Square) – According to a new report published by U.S. Read More
National
Florida to continue flying noncitizens in U.S. illegally north(The Center Square) – Florida will continue transporting foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally north for at least another eight months, according to a state contract and purchase orders reviewed… Read More
Immigration
VIDEO: Texas DPS, Texas National Guard apprehend human smugglers, gang members at border(The Center Square) – Law enforcement officers working through Operation Lone Star continue to interdict criminal activity at the Texas-Mexico border, including apprehending human smugglers and gang members.Members… Read More
Immigration
NYC Mayor about-face on illegal immigration hypocritical Abbott says(The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told The Center Square that New York City’s mayor and other Democratic leaders are hypocritical for criticizing him “for helping… Read More
Immigration
Texas GOP leadership formally declares Texas is being invadedThe executive committee is calling on Gov. Abbott to defend Texas and America (The Center Square) – The executive leadership of the Republican Party of Texas has formally declared… Read More
Immigration
5th Circuit hands Texas another win on immigration, ruling DACA is unconstitutional(The Center Square) – The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas federal judge’s ruling that the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unconstitutional. Read More
Immigration
33 Texas counties declare invasion at southern border, more expected to followNumber of gotaways in McMullen County in one month is seven times greater than its population (The Center Square) – To date, 33 Texas counties have declared an invasion… Read More
Immigration
Abbott: Biden sending National Guard to border is hypocritical(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Defense is calling up an initial 2,500 National Guard troops from multiple states to be sent to the southern… Read More
Immigration
States deploy about 2,500 National Guard troops to U.S.-Mexico border(The Center Square) – Nearly two dozen states are sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to help federal immigration officials grapple with an unprecedented surge of undocumented migrants. Read More
Immigration
Migrant children are being raped and left in the desert, bodies are piling up and drugs are killing Missouri students – all due to an open borderA 5-year-old and a 3-year-old girl were found wandering the Texas desert on the U.S. border with Mexico. They’d both been raped. Meanwhile, Brooks County, Texas’ Benny Martinez… Read More