Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and officers on the streets of New York City. The newly sworn DHS secretary said she was in New York to get the “dirtbags off the streets.”
State and federal law enforcement agencies teamed up on Sunday to carry out targeted immigration enforcement operations in cities across the state. A federal official characterized the actions as in the interest of public safety and national security.
“United in service and in strength,” is the message from the El Paso Sector chief as his agents team up with Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and the Department of Defense to increase security along the border.
President Donald Trump smacked Colombia with an emergency 25 percent tariff and other sanctions after the nation refused two repatriation flights. Colombia reversed its pledge to accept deportation flights from the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is installing new wall panels along the Mexico-New Mexico border. The effort is designed to fill gaps in areas left wide open by the Biden administration.
A contingent of U.S. Marines landed in the San Diego Sector to assist Border Patrol agents. The Department of Defense ordered the Marine deployment in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order, signed on Monday.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a directive on Wednesday tapping other federal law enforcement agencies to assist in the apprehension of illegal aliens. The move is “essential” to carrying out President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers repatriated a 58-year-old Mexican national who is accused of raping a child in his home country. The illegal alien from Mexico had illegally entered the U.S. on four occasions.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott called on Congress to reimburse the State for more than $11.1 billion spent on border security. The governor said Texas taxpayers footed the bill for border security “due to the Biden Administration’s refusal to do its job for the last four years.”
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an American hiker after the hiker was strafed by “suspected cartel terrorists.” The shooting took place near the California-Mexico border close to Jacumba, California.
The Pentagon announced the Department of Defense will provide military airlift support to support the DHS in deporting detained illegal aliens. The United States Air Force will supply four aircraft to remove up to 5,000 aliens currently being detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
During a meeting on Wednesday of the Senate Committee on the Budget, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) told Office of Management and Budget Director Nominee Russell T. Vought that his America First Act would ban illegal immigrants from receiving welfare and other benefits.
In support of executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on Monday, the Department of Justice directed prosecutors to investigate state and local officials who obstruct federal enforcement actions related to immigration law. A memo from the acting deputy attorney general also creates a “Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group” to focus on these threatened obstruction issues.
President Donald Trump followed through with a border security executive order signed on Monday by ordering the deployment of 1,500 active duty servicemembers to the U.S. southern border.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the deployment of additional floating barriers on the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. A federal appeals court previously ruled the State could continue its efforts in a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration.
Representative Brian Babin (R-TX) introduced the “Birthright Citizenship Act” on Tuesday in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order to stop the abuse of U.S. citizenship. The bill is one of many expected to be filed in the coming days to codify the president’s executive orders into law.
Former Texas Border Czar Mike Banks took the helm of the U.S. Border Patrol on Monday. President Donald Trump appointed Banks as Chief of the United States Border Patrol shortly after being sworn in.
President Donald Trump signed at least ten executive orders on his first day in office impacting border security, illegal immigration, and crimes by people illegally present in the United States.
A Swanton Sector Border Patrol agent was shot and killed during a traffic stop 20 miles south of the Vermont-Canada border. A suspect in the agent’s death was killed, and another suspect was wounded during the incident.
WASHINGTON, DC — Newly sworn President Donald J. Trump said he will declare a state of emergency during his first day in office. The president went on to say he will end the Biden-era “catch and release” policies that allowed millions of “asylum seeking” migrants into the U.S. interior after they illegally crossed the border into the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in riot gear shut down the international bridge to Mexico moments before President Donald Trump took the oath of office. During his inaugural address, the president said he would declare a state of emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border and ordered the end of the Biden-era CBP One immigration app.
A suspected cop killer shot a U.S. Marshals Service K-9 after the dog found him hiding in a trash dumpster. Police returned fire, striking and killing the suspect. K-9 Rocky is expected to survive.
A West Texas sheriff’s deputies arrested a Venezuelan asylum seeker last week for smuggling a group of migrants into the interior of the U.S. The migrants were part of a steady stream of migrants apprehended in Terrell County, Texas, during the final days of the Biden administration.
A federal judge in the District of Vermont sentenced a Mexican national to prison following his conviction for smuggling nearly 100 migrants across the Canadian border into the U.S. The Mexican national received approximately $500,000 in smuggling fees during a five-month period.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the flags on the State Capitol and other State buildings to be at full-staff on January 20 to celebrate the inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump. The flags are currently at half-staff in memory of the late President Jimmy Carter.
U.S. Coastguardsmen reported a makeshift boat about to make landfall near Key West, Florida, last week. Border Patrol agents responded and found 24 migrants from Cuba.
Border Patrol agents arrested a group of Special Interest Aliens after they crossed the border from Mexico into Texas last week. The group included two Iranian nationals and two Egyptian migrants.
Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan celebrated the discovery of three drug smuggling tunnels used by Mexican cartels along the Arizona border. U.S. and Mexican law enforcement teamed up and used drone technology to discover the tunnels.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers utilizing a K-9 team tracked down and arrested a previously deported Mexican migrant. The Mexican nationl was found while trying to avoid apprehension after illegally re-entering the United States from Mexico.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested four confirmed Tren de Aragua gang members after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. The four Venezuelan gang members crossed in a group of 22 migrants from four countries on New Year’s Eve.
A migrant illegally present in the United States is in a Texas jail charged with kidnapping a Guatemalan migrant woman and holding her for ransom. He reportedly forced the woman to perform labor to work off her smuggling debt.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers rescued two young girls who were abandoned by human smugglers along the Rio Grande after crossing from Mexico. During his successful bid to retake the White House, President-Elect Donald Trump called on Congress to apply the death penalty to child traffickers.
A Florida homeowner shot at two migrants who allegedly broke into his home Thursday night. One of the migrants, a Mexican national, died from multiple gunshot wounds.
A Honduran migrant who entered the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor now faces a murder charge in Harris County, Texas. The man was ordered removed from the U.S. by an immigration judge in 2010 after failing to show up for scheduled hearings, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott launched a billboard campaign in Mexico and Central America, warning of the consequences of illegal migrants to the Lone Star State. One billboard asks migrant parents, “How much did you pay to have your daughter raped?”
A North Dakota police chief says he cannot get help from the Biden administration regarding criminal activity involving Tren de Aragua gang members. North Dakota is now the 17th state to report Tren de Aragua gang crime.
More than 10,000 Special Interest Aliens were apprehended during the first two and one-half months of the new fiscal year. Special Interest Aliens come from countries with known ties to terrorism.
The last of six human smugglers pleaded guilty last week to the deaths of two Salvadoran migrants who were beaten to death in a warehouse in Houston in 2006. The two smugglers face up to life in prison following sentencing hearings set for next year.
After the discovery of the Biden administration starting to sell off what appear to be sections of unused border wall materials, Texas looked into buying the sections to donate to the incoming Trump administration. Texas officials determined the materials were mostly junk, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick reported.
Five men with alleged ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua are under arrest after Texas state and local police found $1 million in drugs in a Houston apartment. In addition to the drugs, police seized 24 firearms.
