Yuma Sector staffing reports leaked to Townhall.com reveal most Border Patrol agents within the sector are performing duties related to processing, migrant transport, and providing humanitarian care versus performing enforcement patrols along the Mexican border.
President Joe Biden has experienced a 14 percent net swing against his immigration approval rating over the last two weeks amid the migrant surge on the southern border, a Morning Consult/Politico poll released Wednesday revealed.
Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan said on Fox News this week Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who criticized characterizations of the border “surge” as “white supremacy philosophy,” needs to go to the border and talk to agents to see that the situation is a “national security crisis.” He added she “shouldn’t be in Congress at all” if she cannot grasp that concept.
President Joe Biden has shifted the border crisis over to Vice President Kamala Harris after respondents to a poll blamed him for the migrant crisis, pinning her with an issue which she has spoken about with unfettered solutions, perhaps providing American citizens a glimpse of what is next.
While appearing on PBS’s “NewsHour” on Tuesday to discuss the surge at the U.S.-Mexico border and the possibility of a forthcoming immigration bill on Capitol Hill, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) offered his assessment of the situation.
Far from Washington, D.C., Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe and his deputies see the effects of the recent surge in illegal immigration following the reversals of Trump era executive policies. Daily, his department fields phone calls from Texas ranchers frustrated with the increase in migrant traffic and the related damage to their properties.
President Joe Biden’s deputies will bypass the media’s click-bait focus on border-backlogged “kids in cages” by simply flying and bussing more Central American migrants to homes through the United States, according to media reports.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced the approval to build a new soft-sided processing center. The announcement comes as President Joe Biden announced the cancellation of Trump administration policies that are now expected to create a surge in illegal immigration.
The Department of Justice issued a release Wednesday claiming 2700 additional immigration cases have been resolved due to the administration’s “surge” of immigration judges to the southern border districts.
As the surge of illegal aliens continues to mount in South Texas, Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector capped off a busy day by arresting one group of 86 illegal aliens and seizing more than $1 million worth of marijuana. Agents also carried out a rescue of an illegal alien lost in the brush and, unfortunately, recovered the remains of another migrant who was not as lucky. All of these incidents occurred in the RGV Sector on Monday.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers picked up 650 illegal aliens that came to the country as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) and Family Unit Aliens (FMUA). Operation Border Guardian/Border Resolve is a response to the surge of families and UACs that illegally entered during the Obama administration.
The spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) told the Fox News Channel that her agents are not a deterrent to illegal border crossings in the current climate.
Total apprehension of illegal aliens along our country’s southwestern border increased for the fifth consecutive month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials reported. It was the tenth month that reported increases over the previous month in the past year.
A report issued by the Center for Immigration Studies revealed a massive surge in the numbers of illegal border crossings and apprehensions in the months leading up to the November 8 Presidential Election.
The reassignment of U.S. Border Patrol agents to the Rio Grande Valley Sector announced on Saturday will leave other areas of the border less secure. Agents are being reallocated to assist with a growing surge of immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
The flood of illegal aliens pouring across the southern border has become a “crisis situation” and is even worse than the record 2014 border surge, says an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer from El Paso, Texas with more than ten years of service to the agency.
The number of adults traveling with minors and “unaccompanied minors” apprehended illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border increased again last month, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB).
The State Department says it is growing the list of aliens eligible for the administration’s existing Central American Minors program.
The total of 34,463 apprehensions in June — an indicator of attempted illegal entries — exceeded the 29,388 apprehensions exactly a year ago in June 2015. The number of “family units” or adults traveling with minors as well as unaccompanied minors were also at elevated levels last month.
Instead of a swift removal from the U.S. back home, the Obama Administration, under the auspices of complying with a 2008 anti-trafficking law, has been transferring the illegal immigrants minors to the care of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)’ and then to parents and relatives living — in many cases illegally — in the U.S. already.
Chinese nationals represent the fifth-largest population of illegal immigrants in the U.S. but not all of them are undocumented because they overstayed a visa. Many are arriving in the U.S. illegally via the southwest border. The phenomenon is on the
A new sheriff has been elected in South Texas’ Brooks County, a county known for its high number of illegal immigrant deaths. The new sheriff-elect is now faced with tackling that issue with very limited financial resources and an ever increasing number is illegal immigrants moving through his county.
According to recently released Customs and Border Patrol data, CBP made 38,135 apprehensions during the month of April, more than any single month in two years. The increases come as the Obama administration says it is working to reduce the flow of migrants from south of the border.
Amid increased waves of illegal immigration, the Obama administration is planning a new series of raids to remove hundreds of Central American minors and “families” who have already been ordered to leave the U.S.
With apprehension numbers exceeding the unprecedented highs reached in FY 2014, there are already murmurs that this year’s border surge in unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally could reach 100,000.
Another border surge seems to be coming, as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is making preparations for at least 75,000 additional unaccompanied alien minors in its fiscal year 2017 budget request to Congress.
House Democrats are pushing an effort to provide unaccompanied minor illegal immigrants detained while illegally entering the U.S. with government-funded lawyers.
A new bill to swiftly return illegal immigrant minors to their home countries has been introduced by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).
Many of the record numbers of unaccompanied minors who were apprehended entering the United States illegally in recent years have failed to show up for immigration hearings, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reports.
The government is providing some illegal immigrant families with smartphones to temporarily use as they travel throughout the United States to their “destination” cities.
Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants the government to provide certain illegal immigrants with government-funded lawyers.
Two Republican committee chairmen are demanding the immigration histories of two murder suspects in Massachusetts who are thought to have ties to the notorious MS-13 gang.
Eight illegal immigrant “family units” the federal government took into custody during last month’s immigration enforcement raids have been released from custody as their cases continue, according to a coalition of immigration advocacy groups.
The most vocal, pro-amnesty lawmaker in Congress lashed out Thursday at the special immigration privileges granted to Cubans who show up at U.S. ports of entry compared to the outrage over the surge of Central American migrants across the southern border.
Terrorists are undoubtably taking note of the lack of immigration enforcement as the Obama administration allows record numbers of illegal immigrants to stream across the southern border and remain in the U.S., according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).
While the level of border apprehensions of unaccompanied minors and adults traveling with children this fiscal year has dwarfed years past, the month of January saw fewer migrants detained illegally entering the U.S. than months prior.
Overwhelmed by the surge of illegal immigrant youths at the U.S.-Mexico border, federal officials lowered safety standards and inadvertently placed unaccompanied minors in sponsors’ homes where they were abused, according to an Associated Press investigation.
Immigration activists are urging President Obama to shield hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Central American from deportation by extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
In the midst of a renewed run on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Obama administration moved forward with a series of immigration enforcement raids in early January, targeting recent arrival border surge illegal immigrant families.
Amid recent deportation raids targeting some recently arrived illegal immigrant families with final orders of removal, Maryland officials say there has been a decline attendance by Latino students fearing deportation.
