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“The open borders policy of Democrats is driving down the wages of millions of Americans,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Wednesday during a hearing for a Democratic amnesty bill.

Lora Ries said the left enables human trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border because they view migrants as future Democrat voters.

CLAIM: Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas claimed May 11 that  “The border is closed.”

During a Thursday appearance on Fox News Channel’s “The Faulkner Focus,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) called on President Joe Biden to quit “honking” like a goose and get to solving the country’s current challenges.

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents saved the life of an 11-year-old boy after he collapsed in the desert on the morning of May 11. The boy was with a group of five migrants who illegally crossed the border near the Tinajas Atlas Mountains southeast of Yuma, Arizona.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s party has pulled support from one of its candidates in a local election after she wore a hijab in a campaign flier.

Joe’s Biden’s border security chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, is testifying at a Senate hearing about his loose border policies, which are allowing many migrants — and drug shipments — into the United States via multiple loopholes in border law.

(AFP) — Supporters of a Lebanese-Canadian academic who is the only known suspect in a 1980 Paris bombing urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday not to allow him to be extradited a second time, as France’s top court weighs in on the case.

Nearly 200 illegal migrants landed on British soil on the same day that the Queen’s Speech outlined the government’s latest proposals to deal with the growing crisis in the English Channel.

(AFP) — Italy is pushing EU partners to revive migrant burden-sharing deals as it seeks to stave off a summertime surge in landings from North Africa, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Wednesday.

Socialism is dead in England, according to Brexit leader Nigel Farage who said that the Labour Party’s failure to understand working-class concerns about mass migration and the left’s constant assaults on British heritage is to blame for the party’s electoral woes.

The Italian government is in a race against time to acquire new facilities for incoming migrants as arrivals surge and ships previously used for quarantine will soon no longer be available.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Del Rio, TX Mayor Bruno Lozano (D) pushed back against statements from the Biden administration that the border is closed and said that the border “seems to be wide

President Joe Biden said Wednesday on MSNBC that citizens of foreign countries who have overstayed U.S.-issued visas should get an “earned pathway to citizenship” so they do not have to fear getting the coronavirus vaccine or dropping their kids off at school.

President Joe Biden’s border officials allowed the entry of 43 percent more migrants from “other” countries during April, even as the number of recorded arrivals rose modestly to 178,000, according to government data. 

President Joe Biden increased refugee resettlement in the month of April by 904 percent compared to the same time last year, the latest data reveals. 

President Joe Biden has drastically cut the number of criminal illegal aliens in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Jen Psaki dismissed calls for President Biden to visit the southern border to address the crisis, arguing it would not help the children found unattended on the border.

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said he will allow illegal aliens and international college students access to pandemic relief funds.

A federal court in Laredo, Texas, sentenced a local man to more than nine years in prison for packing 35 migrants into a hot tractor-trailer in June 2019. Many of the migrants lost consciousness from the heat and lack of oxygen in the sealed trailer.

Close to 2-in-3 registered American voters say President Joe Biden is “encouraging” illegal immigration to the United States with a series of executive orders, memos, and decisions that are resulting in the mass release of border crossers into the nation’s interior.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has said that the “impact of Brexit is only just beginning”, as French political figure Michel Barnier took a move towards the right and stated he backed a cessation of immigration in France for three to five years.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents saved the life of a migrant found on a ranch in South Texas. The agents aided the unresponsive migrant and stabilized him before arranging transportation to a regional hospital.

French populist party leader Marine Le Pen denounced the activities of migrant taxi NGOs, linking them to people trafficking and “modern slavery”.

The acting governor of the southern Italian region of Calabria Antonino Spirlì has called for immediate state intervention to put a halt to the non-stop landings of African migrants.

President Joe Biden’s border policies have worsened nationwide humanitarian, housing, crime, and drug crises, says a letter released Tuesday by 20 GOP governors.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has condemned a new letter, allegedly authored by active French military personnel, that warns of a potential civil war in France.

France should commit to a three to five-year moratorium on immigration in light of problems such as terrorism, the European Union’s former chief Brexit negotiator has said.

Chinese nationals accounted for nearly one-quarter of the foreigners granted refugee status in Japan in 2020, a record high number despite a significant drop in overall refugee applications in Japan last year due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The federal government can reduce illegal migration by raising legal immigration, says a new pro-amnesty coalition of establishment leaders, including George W. Bush and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The illegal alien accused of murdering 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts is hoping to hide his criminal record from jurors in the trial that begins May 17. In August 2018, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 25-year-old illegal alien from Mexico,

President Joe Biden’s administration has released into the United States interior more than 8,000 migrants enrolled in the now-defunct “Remain in Mexico” program, offering them work permits to take American jobs. 

The number of migrants encountered by officers and agents operating under U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the southwest border with Mexico jumped for the 11th straight month. In April, Border Patrol agents and CBP officers encountered more than 178,000 migrants — a nearly 945 percent increase over the same month in 2020.

A law enforcement source within Customs and Border Protection revealed the number of migrants escaping apprehension has reached 200,000 this fiscal year. The source, speaking on a condition of anonymity, says more than 45,000 of those avoided capture in the last 30 days.

What do I think of the Conservatives’ performance on immigration over the past ten years? After a good(ish) start, which saw the introduction of some sensible measures, it has been downhill. Their record over the past five years, however, has been little short of abysmal.

DEL RIO, Texas — A law enforcement source, speaking on a condition of anonymity, reported the number of Venezuelans illegally entering the United States locally is continuing to rise. Nearly 1,500 have crossed into the area since May 1. The Del Rio Sector is currently leading all others in the apprehension of Venezuelan nationals.