AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House of Representatives’ Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety held a public meeting yesterday, and one of the key topics addressed was the deployment of National Guard troops to the Texas border, as well
On Wednesday, a U.S. immigration official was arrested by federal officers for helping to arrange for a man from Ghana to illegally enter the country. Samuel Nyanteng, 33, was arrested at his home in New Jersey on August 6 for
HOUSTON, Texas — Despite claims that the number of apprehended unaccompanied alien children (UAC) has recently declined along the Texas-Mexico border, a shocking estimate from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) states that in Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 more than 127,000 foreign minors will attempt
MCALLEN, Texas – Federal agents have been looking into the connections that led to four grenades and high caliber weapons being found in a Rio Grande City home where three men were shot early Sunday morning. Starr County Sheriff’s investigators
President Obama’s executive actions on immigration did not begin with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in mid-2012. It began in 2011 with his announcement of “prosecutorial discretion” on deportations. A few months later the border patrol noted the first
HOUSTON, Texas — Several unaccompanied minors who entered the U.S. illegally have been relocated to and released where many U.S. citizens cannot afford to bring their own families on vacation: the Virgin Islands. Subsequent to being caught illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border, more
On Friday evening, the White House announced that there have been over 40,000 illegal immigrants–children and adults–detained at the border in the last three months alone. Claiming that the Obama administration has made “unprecedented investments” in border security, the White
The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General released a memo on Thursday confirming the problem of communicable diseases that are being spread throughout detention centers. The OIG outlined a two-week report from the beginning of the month on the detention of
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reacted to news that the House of Representatives was considering a vote to block President Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) for children of illegal immigrants. In a statement emailed to reporters,
As the shock waves from Barack Obama’s manufactured border crisis ripple across the country, turning every state into a border state, backlash is emanating from people who didn’t have much of a problem with open-borders ideology, back when they thought
AUSTIN, Texas–The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which has the responsibility for all “unaccompanied alien children” (or UACs, as they are called under the Homeland Security Act), released statistics regarding the number of children who had been released to family
HOUSTON, Texas–It appears that many illegal immigrants in California are being transported by federal agents via van caravans instead of large Department of Homeland Security (DHS) buses. Dropping off illegal immigrants from vans, rather than buses, may serve to draw less attention and
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said federal officials confirmed during a Tuesday conference call that illegal immigrant children are being released to adults or “sponsors” whose identities the federal government often cannot verify. The Republican governor said she “was confirmed what
The Obama administration may have known as early as three years ago that an influx of illegal immigrant children from Central America would be on its way. An investigation by News 4 Tuscon found e-mails that revealed that in 2011, Tony
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats prepared Tuesday to whack $1 billion from President Barack Obama’s emergency spending request for the border, while leaving out policy changes Republicans have demanded as their price for agreeing to any money. The developments pointed
Depending on who you talk to, the massive wave of immigrants crossing our Southern border, was caused by A – The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, B – Obama’s 2012 executively ordered “Dream Act” amnesty, or
HOUSTON, Texas–The feds are currently loading thousands of illegal immigrants onto planes–many of which are commercial aircrafts–and sending them to cities across the U.S. This transportation practice has raised significant health-related concerns, amid revelations that many of the migrants are never medically screened prior
Nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham lit into an immigration proposal from House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) Monday, saying it would actually weaken border security. The proposal, which a group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner
HOUSTON, Texas–The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee approved a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 that includes $5.508 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Included in that amount is more than $87 million for the transportation of illegal immigrants–most
Three months before the Obama administration released an illegal immigrant from Central America who would later bludgeon a woman to death, President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security was warned that its “catch and release” policy on illegal aliens only
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) said that Vladimir Putin is “responsible and complicit” in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in an interview on Sunday’s “State of the Union” on CNN. “I think this is a
HOUSTON, Texas–Subsequent to entering the U.S., most of the illegal immigrants currently flooding the Texas-Mexico border are loaded onto planes and flown to various cities around the country. Breitbart Texas has learned that many of the planes being used to transport
HOUSTON, Texas–While the Obama Administration has largely expressed surprise at the sharp increase in illegal immigrants from Central America this year, the Health and Human Services (HHS) budget for processing unaccompanied foreign minors has exploded in recent years, raising questions
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Federal agents raiding a human stash house in Brownsville ended up charging one of the illegal aliens with weapon charges after they found a handgun with the serial number filed off. Wednesday morning, Oscar Romeo MARTIN-Zacarias –
Honduras’s first lady is disappointed that migrants from her country who were deported from the United States are returning “empty-handed.” According to CNN affiliate Televicentro, Honduras first lady Ana Garcia de Hernandez said on Monday evening that the migrants who are
