Border Crisis - Page 7

U.S. border authorities reunited a Nicaraguan boy rescued by U.S. Border Patrol nearly two months ago after smugglers abandoned him.

Border Patrol officials in the Tucson Sector report an increase in the number of arrests of single adult migrants this year. Agents apprehended nearly 90,000 so far this fiscal year.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials increased the numbers of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) being released into the interior of the United States since May 1. The speed at which HHS officials transferred recently apprehended unaccompanied minor children helped the agency finally release more on average than are apprehended on any single day. According to an HHS report, the Biden administration released 10,700 unaccompanied migrant children into the U.S. this month.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents recovered a group of 82 migrants packed into a single stash house on Monday. They recovered an additional 16 in a second house near the scene.

Mark Morgan, former chief operating officer and acting commissioner for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), told Breitbart News on Sunday that 300,000 aliens illegally entered the U.S. across its southern border since October of 2020.

Bill O’Reilly, host of No Spin News and author of Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America, told Breitbart News on Monday organized crime in the form of Mexican criminal cartels and their domestic partners “love” President Joe Biden.

Vice President Harris is betting on Guatemala alone to help manage the migrant surge fueled mainly by Central Americans.

In a Monday appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) sounded off on the ongoing border crisis as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claims the border is closed.

Friday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) slammed President Joe Biden and his administration for reportedly flying migrant children into his state unannounced.

U.S. VP Kamala Harris met with a group of similar-minded women Thursday considered leading voices on Guatemala’s troubled justice system.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unleashed in an exclusive Breitbart News interview a blistering critique of what he views as President Joe Biden’s failed leadership of the United States, whereby the president has caused myriad domestic and international crises that threaten American leadership in the world and ordinary American families.

Some Democrats have joined Republicans in urging VP Kamala Harris to travel to the southern border to see the border crisis first hand.

U.S. Vice President Harris promised to send coronavirus vaccines to Mexico during a border security meeting with nation’s president.

During a Thursday appearance on Fox News Channel’s “The Faulkner Focus,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) called on President Joe Biden to quit “honking” like a goose and get to solving the country’s current challenges.

Joe’s Biden’s border security chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, is testifying at a Senate hearing about his loose border policies, which are allowing many migrants — and drug shipments — into the United States via multiple loopholes in border law.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told reporters Wednesday that President Joe Biden’s “policies are failing across the board economically, domestically, and abroad.”

Ongoing lockdowns in Colorado, ostensibly issued to prevent coronavirus transmission, are causing “mass hopelessness” among children, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption.

A federal court in Laredo, Texas, sentenced a local man to more than nine years in prison for packing 35 migrants into a hot tractor-trailer in June 2019. Many of the migrants lost consciousness from the heat and lack of oxygen in the sealed trailer.

President Joe Biden’s deputies will spend almost $9 billion by October to import the left-behind children of illegal migrants who are already working in the United States, according to an agency briefing posted by the New York Times.

President Biden’s about-face Monday on lifting its refugee admissions cap for fiscal 2021 back to 62,500 came with a warning.

Monday, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) discussed her recent visit to the United States’ border with Mexico amid the ongoing border crisis.

Vice President Kamala Harris has avoided visiting the southern border and holding a press conference on the crisis for 44 days since assuming the role from the President. 

The ACLU is advocating for President Biden to grant U.S. entry to some of the “most vulnerable” migrant families.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey expressed frustration that President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris have not reached out to discuss the border crisis.

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued four lost migrants on Tuesday in a wilderness area near Ocotillo, California. Mexican officials notified the sector’s Foreign Operations Branch to request assistance in finding the lost migrants.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) launched a new digital ad and purchased billboards to highlight Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-AZ) “attempt to cover up his failures on immigration.”

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 150 migrants and an armed human smuggler in multiple failed human smuggling attempts over the weekend. The arrests took place as smugglers packed migrants into a variety of vehicles, including a stolen vehicle.

During a Wednesday appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) sounded off on the ongoing crisis at the United States’ border with Mexico.

Tuesday, during an appearance on Mobile, AL radio’s FM Talk 106.5, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) criticized the lack of action from the Biden administration on the border crisis, which he explained has profound consequences for the country.

U.S. Secretary Blinken blasted Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Tuesday over his country’s Legislative Assembly move to remove top judges.

Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 41 days without a press conference addressing the southern border crisis since accepting command of the issue from President Joe Biden.

Vice President Kamala Harris promised Central American countries to work with them to battle climate change in a speech on Tuesday, in the hopes of slowing the migrant crisis.

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas declared that the situation with unaccompanied children at the United States’ border with Mexico was “under control.”

The top Republicans on two House panels declared their concern Monday over a reported plan by the Biden Administration to send cash payments to Central American countries to help address the root causes of the migrant crisis.

A group of fishermen found the body of a drowned migrant on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. Since the start of the year, the border state of Coahuila reported 54 drownings in the Rio Grande as a growing number of migrants attempt to cross into Texas.

A news story published on Friday touted the Biden administration’s progress on the unaccompanied migrant children crisis at the border. An 84 percent drop in the number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) in Border Patrol custody was cited as the administration’s cause for celebration.