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Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced it will no longer bother to attempt prosecuting most illegal migrants even under existing laws, as Home Secretary Priti Patel is once again claiming the Tories are poised to get tough on immigration.

President Joe Biden’s border chief announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would not detain pregnant and lactating illegal migrants, widening the official effort to abolish ICE enforcement of U.S. immigration law.

Austrian 13-year-old Leonie, who was found dead last week, is said to have been given at least 11 ecstasy tablets before she was allegedly raped and murdered by several Afghan migrants.

In recent weeks, a spate of accidents involving human smugglers has plagued the city streets of Laredo, Texas, endangering the public, and in one case, costing the lives of migrants.

French Migrant transport NGO SOS Mediterranee has demanded port access to drop off 572 migrants, claiming that food supplies are running low aboard the vessel.

More than half of the Congressional Black Caucus is asking President Joe Biden to invite many deported black migrants back to jobs in the United States.

Thursday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise slammed the Biden administration’s handling of the border and the response from some Democratic members of Congress, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) weighed in on Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) push to defund immigration agencies.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents encountered two large groups of migrants who illegally crossed the Mexican border into Texas. The agents apprehended a total of 233 migrants from five countries. The groups included at least 55 unaccompanied minors.

Sheriff Justin Marr of Victoria County, Texas, and his deputies patrol more than 200 miles from the Rio Grande. The distance has not insulated his office and constituents from the impacts of the current border crisis.

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), running again for Virginia governor, once called for the United States to “shut these borders down” and to deport illegal aliens “taking our jobs” back to “the countries they came from.”

A President Erdogan-critical journalist living in exile in Germany was attacked outside his home by men who warned him to stop writing.

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson has claimed that mass migration and “imported crime” has destroyed his country after a police officer was recently shot dead in a no-go zone.

Patrick Chaimovitch, a member of the Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) and the mayor of Colombes, has been fined €3,000 (£2,564/$3,547) after he claimed French police acted like members of the Vichy regime.

President Joe Biden’s border chief told government leaders in Guatemala that he is seeking to create “other legal paths” for migrants to enter the United States, according to a Spanish-language news agency.

Radical Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI) on Tuesday, during a conversation with Julie Mao from Just Futures Law on digital walls, borders, and deportations, said the United States needs to stop funding the Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Beijing blasted the U.S. for denying visas to Chinese students at risk of stealing intellectual property to enhance China’s military.

President Joe Biden has thrown out a reform sought by former President Trump that would have brought more federal oversight to foreign nationals in the United States on student visas. 

On Monday, Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents using infrared cameras observed a group of mostly single adult migrants breaching the border wall and attempting to escape responding agents. The group of 156 were arrested shortly after the entry was observed by camera operators.

A group of about four to five Cuban men landed on the shores of Hallandale Beach, Florida, on Tuesday, likely passing through parts of Tropical Storm Elsa, which made landfall in Cuba on Monday.

Rep. Jesús García (D-IL) says he will not support a reconciliation spending package, which only would need majority support in the Senate, that does not include amnesty for illegal aliens.

The location, the timing, and the nature of Harris’s visit demonstrate that she and her administration have no desire to end the crisis any time soon and that this crisis is a deliberate policy.

Sixty two percent of voters believe the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border is a “crisis,” according to a Rasmussen Reports poll Wednesday.

An illegal alien accused of murdering 24 elderly Americans should face the death penalty, Angel Families of the suspect’s alleged victims say. 

Border Patrol agents and Coast Guard crews rescued migrants across the Rio Grande Valley Sector after human smugglers put them in jeopardy. In multiple incidents, smugglers moved women, children, and even infants into the river that separates Texas and Mexico. One woman was saved after an alleged sexual assault attempt.

Swedish prosecutors have demanded life in prison for the Afghan migrant who injured seven people during a stabbing spree in Vetlanda.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage doubts that the British government will follow through in imprisoning migrants who enter the country illegally, saying the only way to stop the crisis in the English Channel is to turn the boats back to France.

Authorities at a British military base on Cyprus have hired 50% more customs officers and procured detection equipment.

Three of the four Afghan migrants suspected of raping and murdering a 13-year-old Austrian girl had their asylum claims declined. But due to appeal proceedings, they were not deported.

The open borders lobby is urging President Joe Biden to stop red states from deploying law enforcement officers to the United States-Mexico border to help Texas and Arizona officials grapple with a wave of illegal immigration. 

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is extending and redesignating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 2,000 Yemen nationals who can continue living in the United States.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus,” Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) said he is concerned that the Biden administration will “cave” to the urging of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) to stop non-border

Pro-migration activists and business lobbies are telling President Joe Biden’s inner circle that it is politically safe to open the border if they also push back against the GOP’s “border chaos” theme.

President Biden is racing to evacuate tens of thousands of Afghans awaiting U.S. visas for aiding the American war effort.

The majority of migrants encountered U.S. agents along the border this year hailed from outside the three Northern Triangle countries.

A source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection says that Texas Highway Patrol Troopers responded to suspicious activity near Normandy and discovered a migrant stash house. The house did not have electricity or running water, according to the source.