Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 902,000 migrants who illegally crossed into the United States between ports of entry during the first five months of this fiscal year. This is down slightly from the same period in FY23 and up by nearly 12 percent over FY22’s year-to-date numbers.
Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) slammed President Joe Biden in her Republican response to his State of the Union address on Thursday night, pointing to the death of Laken Riley as evidence of the president’s disastrous policies.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration will hold a hearing Thursday, March 7, detailing how the Biden administration has dismantled border security measures implemented by former President Donald Trump and how Joe Biden refuses to use his power as president to address the border crisis he created.
Two migrants drowned so far this week while trying to cross the Rio Grande into Texas from the border city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila. Authorities in Mexico recorded a total of 50 migrant deaths so far this year on the shared Coahuila-Texas border.
The House Rules Committee will debate advancing the Laken Riley Act which would force the Department of Homeland Security to detain criminal illegal aliens named after a murdered nursing student in Georgia.
Customs and Border Protection officers at the Juarez-Lincoln Port of Entry in Laredo, Texas, arrested several migrants attempting to assume the identity of United States citizens. The migrant imposters arrested earlier this month were found to be in possession of valid birth certificates that did not belong to them. In two other incidents in recent days, officers at the Juarez-Lincoln Port of Entry thwarted similar attempts by migrants to use identity documents, either fake or valid, in failed attempts to enter the United States.
An NGO that closely works with migrants in Mexico’s Southern border is warning the public that three out of every ten migrants arriving from Central America have syphilis or other types of sexually transmitted diseases.
The U.S. Supreme Court intervened in the legal battle over a new Texas immigration law that would allow state law enforcement officers to arrest migrants who illegally enter the state. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued a temporary stay of a previous order blocking the implementation of a newly enacted Texas law. The latest SCOTUS ruling will temporarily halt the law’s implementation until March 13.
Former President Donald J. Trump visited the small Texas border town of Eagle Pass on Thursday, offering his assessment of the current border situation. Trump began by describing the horrible murder of Laken Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia at Athens. The former President blamed the murder of Riley and other crime victims on what he referred to as the “Joe Biden Invasion.”
President Joe Biden will visit Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday, February 29, after coming under increasing criticism for his disastrous border policies.
Former President Donald Trump will visit Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday, February 29, to inspect the effects of President Joe Biden’s disastrous border policies.
Former President Donald Trump will speak on Thursday afternoon at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas. The GOP presidential frontrunner will find a much more secure border than residents have dealt with in recent months. The former president will witness hundreds of Texas Army National Guard soldiers, and a cadre of law enforcement officers posted along the border in what was once the busiest migrant crossing point along the southwest border.
Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in a head-to-head matchup — even with third-party candidates included.
Authorities in the Mexican coastal state of Michoacan arrested a man and a woman who are wanted in Texas in connection to the kidnapping of three migrants.
Jim Chilton and his ancestors have been involved in ranching in Arizona since the late 1800s. In recent years, the aging rancher has been forced to divide his time between running a successful cattle business and keeping a watchful eye out for cartel smuggling on his remote border ranch south of Arivaca, Arizona.
A handful of veterans trekked into the mountains east of San Diego to place concertina wire in small gaps in the border wall to slow the increasing migrant flow from Mexico into the United States. The group of veterans who call themselves “Border Vets” included Kate Monroe, a current candidate for Congress running against Democrat Mike Levin (D-CA) in the race for the state’s 49th District.
A Venezuelan migrant who illegally crossed the Mexican border into Texas in 2022 is charged in the murder of a Georgia nursing student. The Biden administration released the Venezuelan national in El Paso where he listed an NGO in New York City as his destination.
U.S. Representative Tom Tiffany (R-WI) posted video on social media showing what he described as NGO volunteers loading up migrants who just crossed the border and driving them to a camp. The migrants were removed from the border prior to any inspection or background investigation by U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Mexico and the United States will hold presidential elections within the same calendar year for the first time in more than two decades. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s willingness to crack down on migrant crossings may have more to do with securing an election victory for U.S. President Joe Biden and his own ruling Morena political party than securing the border. A temporary pause in migration designed to ensure a November win for the Democrats in the United States and a June win for AMLO’s Morena party candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, could keep the border wide open for years to come.
Kamala Harris appears to be positioning herself as an alternative if Biden decides not to run for reelection before the DNC.
The Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing on the consequences of the Biden administration’s catch-and-release policy at the U.S. southern border.
A dramatic video published by Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Robert Danley shows agents rescuing two migrants who appear to be near drowning in the Rio Grande. These are two of the thousands of migrants rescued yearly by Border Patrol agents nationwide.
Border Patrol Agents in California arrested groups of migrants suspected of involvement in a sophisticated theft scheme involving stolen department store gift cards, possession of fraudulent identity documents, and credit card skimming activities. The pair of independent busts occurred in the El Centro Border Patrol Sector last week and involved five Chinese nationals in one case and two Romanian nationals in the second.
The Arizona border crisis continues in the Tucson Sector, where agents apprehended nearly 26,000 migrants in the past two weeks. Following a slight downturn in January, the number of migrant apprehensions quickly returned to near-record levels.
The House Federal Lands Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the consequences of President Joe Biden failing to secure the southern border on Thursday, February 8.
The spike in migrants crossing into the Tucson Sector returned last week, with daily apprehensions numbers jumping back to the levels seen during the record-shattering month of December. Tucson Sector agents apprehended nearly 14,000 migrants during the past week.
After a significant reduction in migrant traffic in January, migrants are slowly returning to the small border city of Eagle Pass. Despite increased law enforcement operations in Mexico designed to clear the immediate border area to move migrants to southern and central Mexico, some migrants are evading the operations and continue to arrive in Eagle Pass. On Tuesday, more than 300 migrants were apprehended just south of the city by agents assigned to one of two stations in the area.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is blaming Republican senators for the creation and collapse of the pro-migration bill he drafted with Democrats.
The number of migrants apprehended along the southwest border with Mexico in January fell by more than 50 percent from the record-shattering report in December. Following dropping approval ratings for President Joe Biden on the topic of immigration and border security and a meeting between the Mexican president and two Biden administration cabinet members, actions taken by the Mexican government led to a drop of more than 125,000 migrant apprehensions in January.
The House of Representatives is debating impeaching DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, February 6.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is uncertain of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) future after the reveal of the pro-migration border bill.
Breitbart Texas visited the Mexican sister city to Eagle Pass, Texas, to witness the daily flow of migrants using the Biden administration’s CBP One App to cross the Camino Real International Bridge. The crossings occur as the State of Texas continues to fortify the recently seized Shelby Park below.
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said he would oppose the Senate bipartisan migration deal, making him the twenty-second Republican to say so.
Claims of abuse, negligence, and human rights violations continue to plague Mexico’s largest immigration station. Last week, authorities tried to cover up their negligence in the second fatality in this facility in a matter of weeks.
Conference Chair Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) is a no-vote on the pro-migration border bill unveiled on Sunday.
Sen. Deb Fischer said she cannot vote for a border bill that funds other nations’ security while leaving America’s security in “jeopardy.”
Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) will oppose the Senate pro-migration border deal, saying it “fails to change the state of the border crisis.”
Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) is the latest Republican member of the U.S. Senate to publicly oppose the pro-migration border bill released Sunday.
The House Rules Committee will debate a resolution on impeaching DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his dereliction of duty on the border crisis on Monday, February 5.
Police officers from Eagle Pass, Texas, took to the street on Saturday to control entry and exit points from Shelby Park as hundreds of peaceful demonstrators held a rally twenty miles north of the city in Quemado, Texas. True to their promises, rally organizers limited their activities to the small border community outside the city, with only a few visitors walking the streets downtown near Shelby Park.
