Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents utilizing Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) detected a group of 30 migrants preparing to enter the United States illegally. Ground-based agents later intervened.
On Sunday, Laredo Sector Border Patrol Agents responded to a call for assistance from the Webb County Sheriff’s Office concerning an abandoned semi-trailer found on Texas Highway 59, approximately 18 miles east of the city. The trailer had been consumed by fire. Suspecting foul play and a possible connection to human trafficking, responding deputies alerted federal counterparts for assistance.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents carried out multiple rescues of migrants in life-threatening situations over the past few days. One included a mother and her nine-year-old son who human smugglers abandoned in the deadly ranch lands of Brooks County, Texas.
The Border Patrol in the Yuma Sector made more than 2,700 migrant apprehensions between Friday and Sunday. Agents also responded to five emergency calls ending in two migrant deaths and several serious medical cases. One group crossing numbered nearly 100 in temperatures well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Italian police took a 45-year-old African migrant into custody after trying to sexually harass a nine-year-old girl and attacking her uncle with a broken bottle.
Afghans evacuated from the now Taliban-controlled country who worked for the British authorities will be given indefinite leave to remain under ‘Operation Warm Welcome’, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed.
Ministers from across the European Union (EU) have presented a plan to support countries neighbouring Afghanistan to host those fleeing the Taliban, in order to stop a repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis.
An Algerian illegal immigrant brutally beat his former girlfriend with an iron bar and then set her apartment on fire after she said she wanted to leave him.
More than 500 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Saturday, with several of them allegedly showing signs of abuse and torture.
Wages in Canada are almost flat, house prices are spiking, and the wealth gap is growing while Canada’s established political parties invite an accelerating flood of economic migrants.
The government programs that import people from chaotic countries, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, are riddled with fraud and national security risks, according to a report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
Afghans flagged with “ongoing security concerns” may still be resettled across the United States with some monitoring by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to Bloomberg.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is asking top officials in President Joe Biden’s administration to disclose how many Afghans seeking entry to the United States have been found on the government’s “No Fly List” and the number of Afghans being held in federal custody after having been flagged as security risks.
A video published by former Tolo News reporter Muslim Shirzad on Tuesday appears to show hundreds of Afghans walking west toward Afghanistan’s vast border with Iran.
As the number of economic migrants apprehended climbs daily, those with previous criminal convictions or affiliated with violent gangs follow the trend. In the current fiscal year, according to a source within CBP, nearly 9,000 criminal migrants have been arrested. The agency reports another 279 criminal gang members were caught during the same time period. These figures contrast against 2,438 criminal migrant arrests in 2020.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has promised to take in at least 70,000 vulnerable people from Afghanistan, including human rights activists and journalists.
European Union member-states are gearing up to counter a possible migrant crisis from Afghanistan, according to a draft statement that is set to be officially released on Tuesday.
President Joe Biden’s federal agencies, with the help of refugee contractors, plan to resettle Afghans across a multitude of swing states.
Afghans brought to the United States, without having to have completed their immigration processing, by President Joe Biden’s administration can leave U.S. military bases where they are stationed, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) says.
The illegal alien convicted of murdering 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A convicted Afghan rapist deported by former President Trump’s administration was reportedly brought back to the United States thanks to President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation out of Afghanistan.
The agency that is helping at least 800,000 migrants rush over the southern border this year is now getting the extra task of resettling many “vulnerable Afghans” in Americans’ neighborhoods and workplaces.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) delivered a letter to DHS asking the agency to stop sending illegal aliens who have crossed the border to Florida.
President Joe Biden’s administration has flown roughly 14,000 Afghans into the Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia over the last 12 days.
Afghans are arriving in the United States despite having “no documents whatsoever” after having been screened and approved by President Joe Biden’s federal agencies, CNN reports.
Afghans flown to the United States have been later sent back to countries abroad after federal agencies “flagged” them for “security concerns,” the Washington Post reported.
A total of 11 flights filled with Afghans evacuated from Afghanistan were flown to Volk Field Air National Guard Base in Juneau County, Wisconsin, late last week, according to local reports.
Danish Integration Minister Mattias Tesfaye has stated that his dream goal is no new asylum seekers in Denmark, saying that the current asylum system is “immoral”.
Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarakis has reiterated that his country will not be a gateway for migrants to travel to Western Europe as it was during the 2015 migrant crisis.
A French newspaper has published an article arguing that Afghan migrants with Taliban ties may not be a terror threat as the group “are not destined for international jihad.”
Pakistani troops opened fire on a group of Afghan civilians attempting to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least six people, Pajhwok Afghan News reported.
The number of migrants crossing the border without being apprehended soared to more than 340,000 migrants so far this Fiscal Year 2021, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection source. This figure represents an estimate of the total number of migrants believed to have escaped into the U.S. interior without capture or apprehension by Border Patrol agents.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement officials found the bodies or skeletal remains of more than 100 migrants so far this fiscal year.
Sixty-six progressive Democrats are telling President Joe Biden to open the nation’s border to Afghan migrants because the U.S. bears moral responsibility for the wars in Afghanistan.
Greek police have not yet commented on whether or not they believe Abedi Elmi’s passports were meant to help facilitate illegal migration.
The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has announced he will run for the French presidency, vowing to take a harder line on immigration than incumbent Emmanuel Macron.
According to an activist group that deals with honour violence and oppression, young girls continue to be flown out of Sweden for forced marriages and female genital mutilation (FGM) despite bans.
The Chairman of the German Board of the Federal Employment Agency has claimed that Germany needs at least 400,000 migrants to arrive per year to fill gaps in the labour market.
A member of the French think tank the Institute for Justice has warned that increasing the number of Afghan migrants in France could lead to an increase in criminality.
Government employees are given bonuses for rubber-stamping corporate requests to replace American graduates with imported contract workers, an inside source told the Veritas Project.
