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Voters lopsidedly oppose the inflow of more immigrants into the United States, according to a Morning Consult poll.

A Bangladeshi national pleaded guilty in a Texas federal court Tuesday to smuggling numerous fellow countrymen into the United States. The smuggling network moved the Bangladeshi nationals, mostly men between the ages of 18-35, to South America where they made their way through Central America and Mexico.

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) used an event in Charleston, South Carolina, to repeat the false claim migrants supposedly commit less crime than American citizens.

A previously deported illegal alien has pleaded guilty to strangling and drowning his ten-year-old cousin after attempting to sexually assault her in 2016 in Cherokee County, Texas.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents discovered the bodies of three deceased migrants over the past weekend who apparently attempted to or illegally crossed the border. Two were found in the Rio Grande and a third on a ranch in Kenedy County — about 60 miles inland.

Two men appeared before a Texas district court judge Monday to face charges stemming from a 17-count indictment related to an alleged fatal crash that occurred in a March human smuggling attempt. A crash left two innocent victims dead and multiple migrants injured.

The Brooks County Sheriff’s Office in southern Texas reported the recovery of three migrant bodies on ranches surrounding the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint on U.S. Highway 281 this week. The total number of migrant deaths in the county 80 miles from the Mexican border is now 33.

President Trump criticized North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper in a tweet on Saturday for his veto of a bill that would have required local sheriffs to cooperate with ICE agents who have detainers for illegal aliens incarcerated in county jails.

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents arrested 14 migrants during two failed smuggling attempts near the Texas border with Mexico.

Actress Alison Brie spoke railed against supposed mistreatment of immigrants across the United States alongside rapper French Montana at the MTV Music Video Awards on Monday, describing it as “unconstitutional and frankly disgusting.”

Hundreds of African migrants are finding themselves trapped in Mexico’s southern border region after new immigration rules no longer allow them safe passage to the U.S. The rule changes now say they must naturalize in Mexico or exit through its southern border.

Federal agencies must work harder to prevent Indian and Chinese college graduates fraudulently getting work visas and jobs which are needed by their U.S. counterparts, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.

The number of failed asylum seekers who should be deported from the United Kingdom has near doubled in five years, and new refugees are arriving into the country every week with 28 individuals known to have landed in Kent overnight.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will send a letter Tuesday to Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan, urging him to help alleviate the migrant crisis in Texas’ border communities.

Some hospitals in Japan have begun imposing conditions before attending to foreign patients and at least one has refused to treat non-Japanese residents, Mainichi Shimbun reported on Sunday.

The Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration has “condemned” the final rule published by the Department of Homeland Security last week “relating to the care and custody of immigrant children under the Flores Settlement Agreement.”

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) says he is horrified that pregnant migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border are not being swiftly released into the interior of the country to have their children while they await their asylum process.

The more counties across the United States become diverse, the more quickly Democrat-majority they become, new analysis reveals.

The Washington Post claims that a “rational” national immigration policy would deliver an endless stream of welfare-dependent immigrants to American corporations and businesses.

Ending “catch and release” is the only moral way to avoid traumatizing migrants’ children, says Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s top immigration aide.

The British government cannot put an end to the Free Movement migration regime after Brexit because it will have no means of telling which EU nationals have a right to be in the country and which do not, experts say.

Maltese local councilor Justin Schembri has praised Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini for standing up to the European Union (EU) on the migration issue, not “letting his country be accomplices” in the “wave of organized crime” occurring on the Mediterranean Sea.

Americans are getting higher wages and more labor-saving machines because companies cannot get enough immigrants, laments a pro-migration business reporter at the New York Times.

A New York Times (NYT) editor says the country’s policy of birthright citizenship — even for a U.S.-born child of illegal aliens, often referred to as an “anchor baby” — has been “enshrined in the Constitution for more than 150 years” and cannot be ended.

About 109 counties across the United States have become majority-minority in less than 20 years, new demographic data reveals.

Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, a Democrat, vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have required sheriffs in the state to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents seeking to obtain custody of illegal aliens for whom detainers have been issued.

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller says President Trump is currently reviewing “all legal options” to end the country’s birthright citizenship policy which has allowed millions of illegal aliens to secure American citizenship for their U.S.-born children. 

Human smugglers in Mexico are now charging Central American migrants up to $9,000 each as increased border security makes crossing more difficult. Some of the fee is paid to Mexican cartels while other parts are paid to local smugglers near

Aging rocker Neil Young released a statement encouraging musicians and artists to amplify the words of migrant children being held in U.S. custody by putting their stories into their work.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – Police in Croatia say a migrant has died after a van carrying 12 of them plunged into a river near the border with Slovenia.

The Norwegian government has confirmed it will not be taking in any migrants rescued by NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean, despite a French request.

Two professionals in very different fields have teamed up to raise money for families affected by the recent ICE raids in Mississippi. 

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a group of 11 migrants who were allegedly smuggling 820 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. Officials report one of the illegal aliens is wanted by police in Marion County, Oregon.

BERLIN (AP) – Austria is preparing to repatriate two sons of an Austrian Islamic State group supporter believed to have died in Syria after she headed there in 2014.

Sky News has been mocked mercilessly for a report on the threat which Brexit supposedly poses to the “key childcare option” of importing foreign au pairs to look after children.

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) – North Macedonia police say a 20-year old migrant from Bangladesh was killed and 12 others injured when a van packed with migrants collided with a truck on the main highway in the south.