1st Cross-Border Air Terminal Opens in California
Border security remains a heated issue as America braces for the Wednesday opening of the country’s first cross-border airport terminal in California–one of the only such terminals in the world.
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Salvadoran Illegal Alien Arrivals Spiking in South Texas
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.
POLL: Donald Trump Leads by 20 Points, Ted Cruz Second
In the most recent CNN/ORC poll, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump leads the GOP field by 20 points with 36 percent, while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) jumped 12 points, moving in to second place.
ICE Director, Ted Cruz Spar Over Obama Immigration Enforcement, Amnesty
A tense exchange erupted in fireworks Wednesday between Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Sarah Saldana during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focused on the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement policies.
ICE Director Struggles to Explain ‘Dramatic Decline’ in Criminal Alien Removals
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Sarah Saldana struggled to explain why the deportations of criminal aliens from the U.S. have declined to nearly half the level removed in 2011.
Dem Rep Cuellar: ‘We Still Have a Problem’ With ‘So Many People’ Entering Through Border
Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) declared, “we still have a problem with so many people coming in” through the border on Tuesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. Cuellar said, “we still have a problem with so many people
Rush: Administration Should ‘Choke On All of Its Irony’ On Border Security
On Tuesday, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh expressed suprise that Obama administration “doesn’t choke on all of its irony” on border security. Rush cited a National Review article entitled “New York Times Reports that Influx of Low-Skilled, Undocumented Immigrants Hurts
Border Patrol Agent: Traffic On Border ‘Unseasonably’ High, ‘It’s a Smuggler’s Paradise,’ ‘Very Porous Border’
Border Patrol agent and Vice President of the Border Patrol’s local #3307, the union representing agents in the Rio Grande Valley sector, Chris Cabrera said that traffic on the southern border is “unseasonably” “more than we’ve ever gotten this time of the year” and further described the border as a “smuggler’s paradise” and “very porous” on Monday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.”
Feds Report New Border Surge Of ‘Unaccompanied Minors’
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.
Dem. Rep.: Syrian Refugees Coming Through The Southern Border, ‘They Will Be Released’
A Democratic congressman is raising concerns about Syrian refugees entering the U.S. via the southern border, pointing out that such a phenomena negates the idea of an extensive vetting process for Syrian refugees.
Marco Rubio Has Lost Poll Support Since Paris Jihad Attacks
Pundits expected the terrorist attacks in Paris to shove the GOP’s primary race towards national-security debates and to boost the experienced pols, including Sen. Marco Rubio.
Latino Workers Grateful to Trump at Hat Factory
Latino workers at a fashion headwear business in Carson have noticed that they are making more money, and they owe it all to one man: Donald Trump.
Carly Fiorina: U.S. Must ‘Do Whatever Is Necessary’ to Bar Terrorists from Entering the Nation
GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina joined Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM with guest host Matthew Boyle where she said the United States must “do whatever is necessary to ensure that we do not have terrorists coming into this nation.”
‘Deep Poverty’ and the No-Growth Open-Borders Quagmire
At the dizzying height of Food Stamp Nation, with some $80 billion a year spent just on food assistance, and a government of unprecedented size and power aggressively recruiting new dependents, how do we still have so many people living in such deep poverty?
Report: Illegal Immigrants Attack, Bite Alabama Cop
According to a report that aired on Mobile, AL CBS affiliate WKRG on Tuesday, a Summerdale, AL officer had to call for back-up when he and his partner were attacked by three men, all illegal immigrants from either Mexico or Central America according
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Deputies Will Be Wearing Body Cams Soon
“America’s Toughest Sheriff,” Sheriff Joe Arpaio tweeted on Monday to say that 700 body cameras would be distributed and issued to his deputies soon. He said, “I will be flipping the ON switch soon! Stay tuned.”
Britain Could Be Forced to Open Doors to Calais Migrants
Britain may be forced to take in hundreds of migrants currently encamped at Calais, thanks to a little-known amendment to European Union (EU) law. Changes to the Dublin Regulation, which determines the legality of asylum claims, mean that migrants can
France May Be Unable to Close Down Borders at this Point
Shortly after the tragic terror attacks that occurred in Paris the evening of November 13, French President Francois Hollande ordered the closing of his country’s borders to prevent anyone involved in the attacks from leaving France. However, carrying out such an order by bringing all cross-border traffic to a halt—even in a country as relatively small as France—is easier said than done.
Fiorina: Illegal Immigrants Have ‘Forfeited’ Citizenship, ‘Maybe’ Can Stay ‘As Workers’
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina argued that illegal immigrants in the US have “have forfeited their right to become citizens” and could “maybe” stay in the US “as workers” on Friday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” Fiorina, in response to a question
Jeff Sessions: Next President Must Commit To Lower Immigration Levels, Eliminate Amnesty
“The illegal 2012 amnesty helped spark our current border crisis by giving jobs and benefits to younger illegal immigrants. This benefits program continues to operate, although it violates the law in all the same ways as the court identified for the 2014 amnesty,” Sen. Jeff Sessions writes.
Martin O’Malley Dines with Family of Illegal Immigrants
Democratic Presidential Candidate Martin O’Malley dined with a family of illegal immigrants Thursday in a bid to highlight the benefits of executive amnesty and the plight of the “New American family.”
Cruz: I Don’t Support Amendments To Increase Legal Immigration, H-1Bs I Put Forth In 2013, Rubio’s ‘Talk Is Cheap’
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz stated that he doesn’t support the amendments to increase legal immigration and H-1B visas in 2013 and accused fellow GOP presidential candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio of fighting “tooth and nail, to
AZ Sheriff: 67,000 Criminal Illegals ‘Have Been Released Into Our Community’
Pinal County, AZ Sheriff and Congressional candidate Paul Babeu (R) said, “67,000 criminal illegals, the violent ones, have been released into our community” and that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s deportation plan is “logistically very difficult” in addition to stating,
Trump: Romney’s Self-Deportation Policy Was ‘Mean-Spirited,’ Doesn’t Support Restricting Legal Immigration Further
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump argued that 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s self-deportation policy is “mean-spirited” on Thursday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “People will have to go out, they are illegal immigrants, they came in illegally,
Amnesty Group Chides Hillary Clinton for Use of Term ‘Illegal Immigrants’
Immigration activists have scolded Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for using a term they have determined to be offensive: ”illegal immigrants.”
