The surge of unaccompanied minors and family units illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border continued at even higher rates during the month of December, according to new data from Customs and Border Protection.
Alabama’s senators are calling on the Obama administration to reject any proposals to house unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors at the Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery.
As concerns mount about a renewed surge of illegal immigration, the Obama administration is considering housing unaccompanied minors detained illegally entering the U.S.-Mexico border at military bases throughout the U.S.
Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) is decrying the Obama administration’s enforcement raids targeting border surge illegal immigrant families with removal orders.
A relative of three border surge migrants apprehended during this weekend’s immigration enforcement raids claims they had work permits granted through the Obama administration’s “deferred action” program.
The Obama administration conducted a series of deportation raids over the weekend, netting 121 illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. as part of the recent surge at the U.S.- Mexico border.
The government tally of unaccompanied minors is slightly more straight-forward than the data for “family units.” While the totals of unaccompanied minors ostensibly show the number of immigrants detained at the border who under the age of 18 and without a parent or legal guardian. The “family unit” totals contain data of both children and adults.
The early months of Fiscal Year 2015 have experienced a dramatic increase in the number of unaccompanied minors apprehended at the border compared to the already high number detained in year’s past. The Obama administration will reportedly place as many as 1,000 minors in a warehouse at the Denver Federal Center, another 800 at a Homestead Job Corps site, and 400 at the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
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 —
In an attempt to prevent the chaos of the immigrant border surge that occurred in the summer of 2014, Department of Homeland Security officials are securing various locations to temporarily house Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and family units from Central America. As a result of that effort, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has directed Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico to house up to 400 children starting in January.
In the face of a renewed spike in illegal immigration from Central America and restrictions on detaining families, the Obama administration is reportedly planning to execute a series of raids aimed at deporting hundreds of illegal immigrants who arrived in the U.S. over the past two years.
The surge in illegal immigration at the southern border is due to President Obama’s policies, House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) argues. During the first two months of fiscal year 2016 — October and November — Border Patrol apprehended 10,588
The surge of illegal aliens arriving in south Texas during the summer of 2014 stunned law enforcement agencies and social service providers across the Rio Grande Valley. The numbers haven’t been as high in 2015, but some organizations are noticing a spike in the numbers of illegal aliens from El Salvador walking through their doors in recent months.
The Department of Health and Human Services projects that 5,200 people claiming to be “unaccompanied minors” will have been referred to its care during November by U.S. border agencies.
MCALLEN, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott is requesting that the federal government step up their game as yet another humanitarian takes place on the Texas border. The governor pointed out that Mexican cartels are largely to blame for the problem.
The vast majority of Central Americans who have been interviewed for the Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee/Parole program have been approved to come to the U.S., Breitbart News has learned.
Of the tens of thousands illegal immigrant family units that streamed across the U.S.-Mexico border last year and were released into the U.S., just a fraction have been removed, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data.
The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector announced his retirement this week without any advance notice. The chief is stepping down from the top post in the same area that last year saw a humanitarian crisis as thousands of illegal immigrants and unaccompanied minors flooded across the border.
The data shows that more than 77,000 illegal immigrant adults and minors were apprehended and served Notices to Appear between July 18, 2014 and May 26, 2015. Just over 3,000 appeared before a judge and were ordered removed.
Statistics from the Department of Justice Executive Office of Immigration Review obtained by Fox News reveal that 84 percent of illegal immigrant adults with children released from custody pending trials never showed up and less than 4 percent left the U.S. voluntarily.
One year ago, Breitbart Texas Managing Director Brandon Darby shocked the world by revealing leaked images of immigrant children who were being warehoused in shoddy facilities after being smuggled into the United States from Central America. The more than forty leaked images changed the shape of the discussion of illegal immigration and revealed a cover-up by the Department of Homeland Security as to the severity of the surge of Central American immigrants into the U.S. Media outlets from across the globe republished the photos and forced the Administration to admit what was happening in South Texas.
Customs and Border Protection has a contingency plan in its 2016 budget request to spend up to $134.5 million “to provide the necessary support activities” in the event of a future influx of unaccompanied illegal immigrant youths.
Expect another surge of illegals. Although the Obama administration has adopted a range of efforts to stop Central American children from illegally coming to the U.S. — including implementing a program to fly them here instead — a new report projects 39,000 unaccompanied minors and 35,000 family units will be apprehended at the southern border this fiscal year.
More than 400 people have applied to have their children living in Central America be brought to the United States as refugees or parolees through the Obama administration’s recent Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee/Parole Program and there is no limit on the number of immigrants who could be approved, Breitbart News has learned.
As a new wave of UACs flood the southern border, presidential contender Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is pressing the Obama administration to explain how it’s preparing to deal with the children.
More than 2,000 illegal immigrant minors have been apprehended month since the beginning of this fiscal year in October — the second highest level of illegal minor arrests, behind last year’s record breaking border surge.
WESLACO, Texas – The most wide open area along the Texas border may soon get a boost in law enforcement presence as well as technology, said Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The border city of Laredo and its surrounding areas has a long history of being used for drug and human smuggling by the Los Zetas cartel. A lack of a border fence and populated areas just yards from the Rio Grande have led to detentions of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers around city streets Breitbart Texas previously published.
The federal government admits that a sharp increase in unaccompanied minors illegally migrating north was caused by their perceptions about U.S. immigration policy as well as a desire to flee violence and poor conditions in Central America.
Texas’ top statewide officials are not seeing eye to eye on the critical issue of border security. Public statements by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (R) and Speaker of the House Joe Straus (R-San Antonio) seemed to indicate static between the leaders of the two chambers of the Legislature, and Breitbart Texas was unable to confirm if Patrick, Straus, or Governor Greg Abbott had communicated with each other before a press conference held by Patrick on Tuesday at the Capitol.
In a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick announced that he is seeking $12 million to continue the border surge of Texas National Guard troops through May. They are currently scheduled to leave next month, and
Among the thousands of families and unaccompanied alien children (UACs) who streamed across the U.S.-Mexico border this year who were ordered removed from the country but had not been retained in custody, over ninety percent of those removal orders are not being completed because the immigrants failed to appear at the required hearing and, in most cases, officials have no real answers about how to track them down.
