
Nearly 300,000 unaccompanied minors and “family units” have been apprehended illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since fiscal year 2013, and recent data suggest the influx could continue at even higher levels. During the first two months of FY 2016 —
by Caroline May28 Dec 2015, 11:23 AM PST0

The $1.1 trillion year-end omnibus spending bill includes more funding to settle illegal immigrants in the United States.
by Caroline May17 Dec 2015, 6:47 PM PST0

The numbers of unaccompanied children crossing the Mexican border into the United States continues to spike. October numbers of families crossing the border represents a 150 percent increase over the same month in 2014.
by Bob Price28 Nov 2015, 10:54 AM PST0

One person has died and at least 12 other were injured during a high speed chase that ended in a rollover as human smugglers tried to evade authorities near the Texas/Mexico border.
by Bob Price and Ildefonso Ortiz23 Nov 2015, 3:06 PM PST0

U.S. Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector has discovered that convicted human smuggler Martel Valencia-Cortez, who allegedly assaulted a Border Patrol agent last Sunday night, is allegedly connected to the notorious criminal organization known as the Sinaloa cartel.
by Michelle Moons22 Nov 2015, 4:47 AM PST0

A man caught smuggling fourteen illegal aliens into southern California struck a U.S. Border Patrol agent in the face with a rock. He then managed to escape back into Mexico.
by Bob Price18 Nov 2015, 4:40 AM PST0

Illegal immigrant family units consistently pointed to a belief that they will allowed to stay in the U.S. and receive public benefits as a reason for illegally migrating north to the U.S., according to internal Department of Homeland Security documents obtained by the Associated Press.
by Caroline May30 Oct 2015, 1:55 PM PST0

SAN DIEGO — Fifteen people were captured on Sunday night after six illegally entered the United States of America on a sailboat and moored the vessel at San Diego’s Harbor Island.
by Michelle Moons30 Oct 2015, 6:09 AM PST0

During September, the final month of the fiscal year, nearly 10,000 unaccompanied minors and family unit members were apprehended illegally entering the U.S. through the southern border. That is, Border Patrol intercepted 4,476 unaccompanied minors and 5,273 illegal immigrant family unit members.
by Caroline May22 Oct 2015, 8:09 AM PST0

An Afghan military officer, who deserted last month while participating in a U.S.-based training program, was apprehended by federal authorities on an Amtrak train en route to Washington state, according to U.S. Border Patrol.
by Edwin Mora16 Oct 2015, 8:35 PM PST0

The same week the National Border Patrol Council head revealed that one out of every five Border Patrol arrests last year was of a criminal alien, U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas arrested a previously deported, convicted sex offender from Bolivia.
by Caroline May15 Sep 2015, 10:04 AM PST0

One in every five Border Patrol apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border last year was of a criminal alien, the head of the union representing border patrol agents testified Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee.
by Caroline May9 Sep 2015, 8:20 AM PST0

Charges of assault and animal abuse against two federal border agents were dropped in Sana Cruz County, Arizona, courts. A surveillance camera captured U.S. Border Patrol Agent Aldo Arteaga punching a juvenile detainee in the stomach in a Nogales Station holding cell on January 30, 2014. On February 15, 2014, a different surveillance camera recorded U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agent Edgard Garcia forcefully slamming a 7 year-old service dog onto the ground. Arteaga was charged with assault and Garcia was charged with animal abuse.
by Sylvia Longmire24 Aug 2015, 7:48 AM PST0

The new figures show the pace of illegal immigration by UACs and parents with children — while still less than last year’s surge — increasing. On average, border patrol apprehended 135 UACs each day in July, the highest monthly level of UAC apprehensions this fiscal year.
by Caroline May18 Aug 2015, 8:25 AM PST0

A federal judge in Phoenix ruled to allow attorneys representing immigrant rights groups to inspect four immigrant detention facilities in Arizona where the attorneys feel immigrants were held under “inhumane and punitive” conditions on August 14. The order comes following an enormous wave of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who crossed the southwest border in the summer of 2014.
by Sylvia Longmire17 Aug 2015, 5:54 AM PST0

In recent months and years illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have flooded the U.S.-Mexico border believing they could stay in the U.S. and thinking that the “Notices to Appear” handed to them by immigration officials before being released into the interior of the U.S. were “permisos” or free passes.
by Caroline May10 Aug 2015, 9:46 AM PST0

Mexican illegal alien Juan Emmanual Razo appeared in a Painesville, Ohio, court on Tuesday after he allegedly went on a violent crime spree: Murdering a 60-year-old woman, attempting to rape a 14-year-old, and shooting another woman in the arm.
by Katie McHugh28 Jul 2015, 5:11 PM PST0

Just as 2016 Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump was concluding his whirlwind tour of this Texas/Mexico border city, the U.S. Border Patrol kicked off a hectic weekend. Over the next twenty-four hours or so, Border Patrol agents would seize 427 pounds of marijuana, rescue twenty-two illegal immigrants and save the life of at least one of them.
by Bob Price27 Jul 2015, 3:46 PM PST0

Large numbers of unaccompanied minors and incomplete families once again cross the Texas border. The numbers are not as great as last summer’s surge but Border Patrol agents tell Breitbart Texas that significant crossings have again resumed.
by Bob Price13 Jul 2015, 8:49 AM PST0

A mainstream Arizona newspaper is decrying the small section of the Arizona-Mexico border that has a 14-foot-high primary fence because it is too high for illegal immigrants to safely cross. The article, “Border Fence Jumpers Breaking Bones,” includes the claim that sections of the border with a 14-foot-high fence are “as tall as a two or three-story house” and tells the stories of several women who broke bones and were treated extensively to healthcare and surgeries at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. The writer never mentions any lives directly lost as a result of there not being a border fence in most sections, such as when Mexican nationals crossed into the U.S. and murdered father and husband Robert Rosas, a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
by Brandon Darby5 Jul 2015, 12:01 PM PST0

Pro-amnesty and anti-amnesty activists held separate demonstrations on Wednesday commemorating the one -year anniversary of protests that blocked buses of illegal immigrants from overcrowded Texas detention facilities from arriving at the Murrieta, California Border Patrol station. Many amnesty advocates singled out Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate and business tycoon, for criticism, along with anti-amnesty conservative author Ann Coulter.
by Michelle Moons2 Jul 2015, 6:47 AM PST0

On Wednesday, demonstrators on more than one side of the illegal immigration debate will gather again near the Border Patrol station in Murrieta, California, the site of massive protests last July 1 that began with the blocking and turning back of buses filled with illegal aliens. That event sparked swelling protests that captured the attention of the entire country.
by Michelle Moons1 Jul 2015, 6:37 AM PST0

Monday morning, El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended fourteen suspected illegal aliens hidden in the bed of a truck that was masquerading as an Imperial Irrigation District (IID) vehicle and the truck’s driver, a U.S. citizen suspected of smuggling the foreign nationals.
by Michelle Moons30 Jun 2015, 4:58 PM PST0

Members of the Illinois National Guard (ING) are headed to help secure the border between Texas and Mexico. Approximately twenty soldiers and one helicopter will join other National Guard units from across the nation as part of Operation Phalanx II.
by Bob Price25 Jun 2015, 4:33 AM PST0

San Diego cases of tuberculosis are double the national average health officials say, raising again the question of the role of illegal immigration in the spread of very serious like tuberculosis (TB) in the United States.
by Michelle Moons20 Jun 2015, 3:03 PM PST0