Biden border crisis

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.

A member of Mexico’s National Guard pleaded guilty to using his position to help a car theft ring that was supplying vehicles from Texas to the Gulf Cartel in Mexico.

A man from Laredo, Texas, is under arrest after Texas Department of Public Safety troopers allegedly caught him smuggling illegal aliens. The arrest followed a dangerous high-speed pursuit through a residential neighborhood near the state’s border with Mexico.

A border wall upgrade construction project canceled by President Joe Biden is back underway in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.

A Venezuelan national and suspected member of the violent Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang is being charged by federal prosecutors with possessing a firearm as an illegal alien. According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, the suspect entered the United States in Texas using the Biden administration’s now-disabled CBP-One smartphone asylum application to enter the United States in 2023.

A social media post by the Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, Michael W. Banks, shows February apprehensions to be a record low for the Agency. Banks’s post reveals the startling impact of the Trump presidency on illegal migration to the United States in the 42 days since assuming office.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested a three-time deported Salvadoran illegal alien on charges of repeated sexual abuse of a child. The arrest occurred during a targeted enforcement operation in Colony Ridge — the largest migrant colony in Texas.

The apprehension of migrants illegally crossing the border from Mexico along the U.S. southwest border fell by nearly 38 percent in January as Donald Trump was sworn in as president. President Trump took the oath of office on January 20.

A new video released by the White House on Tuesday lets illegal aliens or migrants on their way to the U.S. see and hear what awaits them in the deportation process.

Hundreds of Texas National Guardsmen participated in a swearing-in ceremony to allow them to enforce immigration law in partnership with U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Mexican officials teamed up with U.S. Border Patrol to locate another cross-border smuggling tunnel. Officials report the finding of a tunnel on Tuesday near the Stanton-Lerdo Port of Entry in El Paso.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem completed her first trip to the southwest border as the leader of the department on Sunday. Noem visited the Del Rio, Texas Port of Entry where she sat for a news interview before joining the Border Patrol agents for a border tour on horseback through an area that once say more than 30,000 mostly Haitian migrants camped out under the same Port of Entry in 2021.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 troops to its northern border as one of the ways to stop a 25 percent tariff from the Trump administration temporarily. The concession comes after days of grandstanding by the Mexican president, who publicly claimed she would stand up for her country’s sovereignty.

Hundreds of protesters marched in streets across the U.S. on Sunday to protest President Donald Trump’s deportation policies. Protesters in Dallas shouted “Mexico, Mexico, Mexico” while carrying Mexican flags.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will visit Del Rio, Texas, on Sunday to meet with Border Patrol staff and rank-and-file agents. The staff will provide Noem with an operational briefing.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks reported a 55 percent drop in migrants encountered along the border during the past week. Migrant apprehensions fell from more than 10,000 during the previous week to less than 5,000 during the past seven days.

In the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector, once one of the busiest regions for illegal border crossings in Texas, migrant apprehensions have dropped by nearly 40% in the first full week of the Trump presidency. The drop has been noted across the southwest border as enhanced immigration operations promised by the Trump campaign during the election season begin to take shape.

Several Border Patrol agents conducting surveillance and enforcement activities in Texas came under fire from suspected Mexican drug cartel operatives early Monday afternoon.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum claimed her government had been seamlessly working with U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s administration to receive thousands of deported migrants. The comments come just one day after President Trump threatened to impose punitive tariffs on Colombia after President Gustavo Petro refused to accept deportation flights. The Colombian president quickly folded under the threats.

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.

Authorities in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua have confirmed the discovery of at least 71 bodies in 46 mass graves in a rural area a short distance south of the border with New Mexico. Cartel gunmen were reportedly using the region to dispose of their victims, who remain mostly unidentified.

Las autoridades del estado fronterizo de Chihuahua confirmaron el descubrimiento de al menos 71 cadáveres en 46 narco-fosas en una zona rural a poca distancia de la frontera con Nuevo México. Según informes, la región estaba siendo utilizada por pistoleros de los cárteles para deshacerse de sus víctimas, que en su mayoría permanecen sin identificar.

According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol is applying a legal process known as Expedited Removal on a broad scale along the southwest border. The agency is now returning migrants to Mexico soon after apprehension. The source told Breitbart Texas, “’Catch and Release’ is over, it’s ‘Catch and Return now.’”

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.

Mexican government officials refused to comment about the apparent refusal to accept a U.S. military flight carrying migrants headed for Mexico.

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.