Customs and Border Patrol officers and agents employed “use of force” tactics fewer times in FY 2015 than the year before even though assaults against officers increased slightly, new government data reveal.
“Individuals that come across the Texas-Mexican border from a countries with a known terrorism presence and the answer to that is yes. We have individuals that we’ve needed to debrief in Pashto/Dari. Not a lot of Pashto and Dari speakers around. But you can’t think about the last attack; you have to think of the next attack and where our vulnerabilities are. So, we’re concerned about that.”
In two separate incidents late this week Border Patrol agents discovered illegal drugs including heroin and cocaine hidden inside a vehicle tire and methamphetamine inside a vehicle gas tank.
Watching the most recent presidential debates might have given Emily Blunt second thoughts about becoming an American citizen, but her latest movie, “Sicario,” a compelling, disturbing, and harrowing story about the Drug War set along our southern border, plays like
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump doubled down on his immigration plan with 60 Minutes’s Scott Pelley, who said Trump’s plan to deport roughly 11 million illegal immigrants isn’t practical. Trump said he will round up the illegal immigrants in a “humane way” and his plan is “practical” and “will work.”
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has shut down the border between his nation and Colombia in Apure state, the third state affected by a deportation spree that has sent 20,000 Colombians fleeing home, fearing for their lives and property.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated, “the key thing is you have to seal the border.” He also argued with regards to the Syrian refugees, “It doesn’t make any sense to me that we should have to do it,
Thursday afternoon in Columbia, South Carolina, former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) joined Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) for a “Presidential Town Hall” series that Scott is hosting with the Republican presidential candidates.
In an interview with Breitbart News Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson expanded upon the mainstream media’s misrepresentation of his comments on the border. He castigated the U.S. government for doing so little to protect Americans against a growing number of illegals
Conservative radio host Mark Levin says the use of the phrase “anchor babies” is inappropriate, since the left would prefer the term “anchor fetuses.”
NACO, Arizona — As a motorcade carrying GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson down to a service road behind part of the border fence that was built here, there were no Border Patrol agents in sight.
GOP presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum spoke at the National Press Club on Thursday in Washington, D.C., telling the audience that in America no one is above the law, “including presidents, judges, and, yes, immigrants.”
Evelio Padilla, whose arrest led federal to an underwater drug-smuggling tunnel near the U.S-Mexico border, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday.
Among other things that Babeu showed Carson and Breitbart News on this helicopter tour were how this far inside the border on high ground there are scores of scout sites where cartel operatives serve as lookouts for smugglers bringing drugs, people and other contraband into the country.
In an appearance at the Iowa State Fair on Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) criticized Donald Trump’s immigration plan—specifically the proposals to end birthright citizenship and deport the millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S.—as “not workable” and “not realistic.”
Spanish-language TV Network Univision seems bothered about the first Republican presidential debate because, according to them, comprehensive immigration reform was not addressed by the 17 candidates who participated in the debates on Fox News.
In the brief immigration section of Thursday night’s debate, Chris Wallace asked Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) if he agreed with Donald Trump that criminals were coming across the border. Rubio ignored the question about documented illegal alien criminality and declared that he believes, “we need a fence,” as well as an “E-Verify and Entry-Exit Tracking System.”
Citing the Senate’s Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest report obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, Rush Limbaugh said that assimilating the deluge of mostly backwards, low-skilled Third Worlders isn’t a “national effort”—even though current U.S. immigration policy will continue to dump at least 10 million more foreigners onto American communities within the next decade.
The tidal wave of migrants fleeing the bloody chaos of the post-Obama Middle East has been hitting Mediterranean nations particularly hard. But Hungary has seen a sizable number of migrants from Syria and Afghanistan as well, experiencing what the Wall Street Journal describes as a doubling of last year’s total migrant population in just the first six months of 2015.
A Hispanic Texan who is a life-long Democrat and lives in the border town of Laredo came out to the airport to give Donald Trump a message. Draped in an American flag, he told Breitbart Texas he is ready for something different and would vote for Trump in the 2016 Texas Republican Primary.
2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump’s arrival in Laredo, Texas was met with a mix of a modest number of protesters as well as supporters, but the protesters did not last throughout the days events. A healthy contingent of supporters; however, greeted the Donald in a meeting of law enforcement officials which cheered Trump while supporters outside also cheered him on.
Perry and Trump have been engaged in a weeks-long war of words. Trump has taken swipes at Perry and other Republican candidates on the issues of immigration and border security, and Perry has fired back that Trump doesn’t understand what he is talking about, and that he is unfit to be Commander-in-Chief after attacking Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) service record last weekend.
Trump has been decrying the lax state of immigration enforcement in the U.S. and related problem of sanctuary cities. He has brought to national attention the stories of families killed by illegal aliens. Since his announcement, Trump has catapulted to the top of polls for 2016 GOP Presidential hopefuls. “Now he galvanized them,” McCain said. “He’s really got them activated.”
Former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) had some sharp words for his fellow Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, slamming the New Yorker’s “fundamental misunderstanding of border security” and saying that Trump was not offering conservatism to primary voters, but instead “Trump-ism — a toxic mix of demagoguery and nonsense.”
The California State Assembly Health Committee passed SB 4 Tuesday on a straight party-line vote, but not without vocal objection from citizen lobbyists. The bill would appropriate $170-740 million annually in taxpayer funds in part to grant illegal aliens Medi-Cal coverage.
