Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard reported that nearly 600 individuals with ties to terrorism were allowed to enter the United States under the Biden administration. The individuals were “paroled” into the U.S. by the Biden administration after they illegally entered the U.S.
On the first day of President Donald Trump’s second administration, he made border security and immigration enforcement top priorities. Now, 100 days later, illegal border crossings fell to historic lows and the Trump administration is executing a whole-of-government approach to rounding up and deporting thousands of criminal aliens. The president declared the border to be a national emergency and designated Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations agents interdicted an attempted human smuggling incident off the coast of California, according to Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks. A video posted on X shows the agents ramming the alleged smuggler’s boat in an attempt to stop them.
U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Texas Governor Greg Abbott met near Houston to dedicate the Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge. President Donald Trump ordered the park to be renamed in honor of the the life of the 12-year-old girl who was brutally kidnapped, raped, and murdered, reportedly by two alleged Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and agents teamed up with Florida state police to round up nearly 800 illegal aliens during a four-day operation this week. The round-up came as part of a multi-agency immigration enforcement crackdown, ICE officials stated.
A disgraced New Mexico magistrate judge and his wife are under arrest after they allegedly harbored reported Tren de Aragua gang members. The judge resigned from his position last week after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested a Venezuelan man said to be living on his property.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested a Guatemalan illegal alien after he allegedly murdered his Guatemalan girlfriend in Maryland. Officers also arrested the man’s uncle as an alleged accessory to murder after the fact.
The Department of Justice filed multiple federal charges against 27 members of the hyperviolent Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang on Monday. The charges include Racketeering, Narcotics and Sex Trafficking, Robbery, and Firearms offenses. DOJ officials say this marks the first time RICO charges have been filed against Tren de Aragua gang members.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent a simple message on Monday to members of the hyperviolent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang, saying, “TdA’s time is up.” The message follows the arrest of hundreds of known or suspected members of the Venezuelan gang.
A Democrat judge in New Mexico resigned from his bench last month after immigration agents arrested an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member living in his home. The illegal alien entered the U.S. in Eagle Pass, Texas, before being released on an immigration parole due to overcrowding. He eventually moved to New Mexico.
The White House posted a photo on social media mocking the New York Times’ headline on their article covering Senator Chris Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador. The senator traveled to the Central American country to visit a deported MS-13 gang member, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
New York City Mayor pushed back against critics of immigration enforcement operations in his city, saying, “ICE is not a criminal organization.” His comments follow the arrest of more than 200 criminal aliens, the majority of which had committed “egregious”
Aggressive enforcement actions along the U.S.-Mexico border led to a nearly 94 percent drop in the apprehension of illegal aliens attempting to enter the United States. The apprehension of migrants by Border Patrol agents fell to approximately 263 per day during the first two months of the Trump administration from more than 4,600 per day during the same period last year.
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) transferred control and administrative jurisdiction of nearly 110,000 acres of federal land along the New Mexico-Mexico border to the Department of the Army. The move by the Interior Department is to comply with President Donald Trump’s order for the U.S. military to take control of federal land along our southern border.
U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) will head a new House Cartel Task Force, which will function under the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).
President Donald Trump ordered the United States Armed Forces to repel the invasion and seal the southern border from unlawful entry. The president said the purpose of the mission is to “maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ordered migrants who received immigration parole under the Biden-era CBP One app to leave the United States “immediately.” Since its inception in January 2023, more than 936,000 migrants have been granted immigration parole under the app.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents seized $175,000 in cash from a group of 21 Romanian nationals at an interior immigration checkpoint in New Mexico. The Romanians are linked to an organized crime network, a Border Patrol official stated.
The White House announced the indictment of a Honduran national illegally present in the United States for allegations that he stole more than 40 firearms from a Tennessee gun store. Police found the guns in the man’s car — with price tags still attached, the White House said.
The White House posted a video appearing to troll illegal aliens, showing a large number being marched across an international port of entry to Mexico. The message serves as a warning that the U.S. no longer tolerates illegal immigration and will “say goodbye.”
Trump officials state that operational control of the U.S.-Mexico border is becoming a reality. The statement follows another month of declining apprehensions of illegal border crossers entering the U.S. from Mexico. The apprehensions fell by more than 1,1oo from February’s historic low.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued a stern warning to those who would threaten or assault federal law enforcement agents and officers. The warning follows a TikTok poster’s video where he encouraged people to shoot ICE officers and agents.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a criminal alien during a train check 50 miles inland from the Texas-Mexico border. The man has a criminal history that includes a 2012 murder in North Carolina.
The FBI announced on Thursday the arrest of a top-level U.S. leader of the hyperviolent MS-13 gang during an operation in Virginia. The man is said to be one of the top three leaders of the gang designated by the Trump administration as a Foreign Terrorist organization.
A new video from the Center for Immigration Studies shows a newly bulldozed roadway for Border Patrol agents to access an unsecured mountainous region of the U.S.-Mexico border more quickly.
The United States Navy deployed an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer to support border security operations. A contingent of U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement personnel will augment the ship’s crew.
Eagle Pass, Texas, police officers apprehended two men shortly after they illegally crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S. The men were wearing wet suits and apparently used underwater propulsion devices to assist their undetected crossing.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced his state police teamed up with ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents to arrest a Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang member. HSI says this is the first in the nation arrest of a TdA gang member under the Alien Enemies Act, the governor said.
Miami Border Patrol Agents teamed up with ICE and local police to arrest ten illegal aliens in the last week. Each of these criminal aliens has convictions for sex offenses, including child sex offenses.
A janitor who worked in a Texas medical facility was sentenced this week to six years in prison after he spread sexually transmitted diseases by peeing in women’s water bottles. The man infected at least 13 women.
St. Patrick’s Day turned out to be a bad day for human smuggling as police in Louisiana arrested a man for driving a Mexican national from Austin, Texas, to Florida. The alleged human smuggler, also a Mexican national, previously received legal status in the U.S. under the Obama-Biden era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
President Donald Trump’s border-state prosecutors charged more than 855 illegal aliens and U.S. citizens with violations of immigration laws last week. The federal criminal prosecutions illustrate new consequences for human smuggling, illegally crossing the border, or re-entering after removal.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed a Mexican national who was convicted of kidnapping on Thursday. The criminal alien has a lengthy criminal history and has been deported eight times.
Hurricane-force winds struck the Texas Panhandle region on Friday playing havoc with motorists on interstate highways. Much of the devastation is in the Canyon, Texas, region just south of Amarillo.
Police and Border Patrol agents in Auburn Hills, Michigan, arrested a Venezuelan migrant wanted for kidnapping and torture in Colorado. Authorities said the arrest came on the tail end of a botched shoplifting attempt.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tweeted a warning to migrants thinking about entering the U.S. illegally. “The border is CLOSED to lawbreakers,” she wrote.
The demolition of Biden-era migrant processing centers along the border began this week in Texas. The Biden administration used the soft-sided facilities to expedite the entry of migrants into the U.S. after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico.
The State of Florida filed felony charges against a Mexican national for illegal re-entry after being deported. The arrest and charges are a first for state immigration violations under a new law passed by the Florida legislature.
An alleged human smuggler now faces additional federal charges of attempting to bribe a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The alleged bribery happened after a Santa Teresa, New Mexico, Station agent arrested the Mexican national for illegally re-entering the United States after removal.
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) cast the only no vote on a bill requiring an annual report to Congress on cross-border cartel smuggling tunnels. The bill, H.R. 495, passed the House Monday on a vote of 402-1.
