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Leading immigration experts say Sen. Thom Tillis’ (R-NC) latest push for amnesty ignores President Donald Trump’s mandate for cracking down on illegal immigration.

A leading immigration group, advocating for more security along the United States’ borders, says President Donald Trump’s promise to build a wall is a “necessity.”

Border Patrol agents from the Yuma and El Centro Sectors teamed up to arrest a human smuggler. The suspect fled and eventually crashed–rolling the vehicle and injuring his passengers.

The spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) told the Fox News Channel that her agents are not a deterrent to illegal border crossings in the current climate.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “O’Reilly Factor,” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd, whose organization endorsed Trump, stated, “there’s a buzz that we’ve never seen before in the Border Patrol. And, of those agents, we feel

More than 1,000 migrants were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents during a 3-month operation targeting Otay Mountain in southern California.

A migrant attempting to cross the border into Texas had to be rescued by Border Patrol agents after succumbing to frigid water in Rio Grande River.

A two-day search led Border Patrol agents and other officials to rescue an undocumented migrant who became injured after crossing the Arizona border with Mexico.

Border Patrol agents on horseback were invited to ride in the inaugural parade for President-elect Donald J. Trump. The agents are from the U.S. Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley Sector’s (RGV) Horse Patrol team.

U.S. Border Patrol agents in southern New Mexico captured a Mexican national wanted for murder in his home country after he fled to America.

Border Patrol agents from the Laredo and Rio Grande Valley Sectors joined up to raid a stash house where 44 illegal immigrants were being warehoused.

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector disrupted a smuggling operation using a makeshift ferry to haul drugs across the border.

The small number of bribery and corruption cases by employees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could have a wider ranging impact on border security and immigration enforcement. The department’s 250,000 employees and vast law enforcement activities are about to be turned over to a new DHS Secretary who will have to address the emerging issue of official corruption.

More than 2,000 illegal immigrants have been freed from sanctuary cities’ police departments in fiscal year 2016 instead of being handed over to federal immigration officials.

Unknown cartel gunmen operating in a known drug smuggling corridor in Southern Arizona fired multiple shots at an on-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent overnight. Breitbart Texas has been able to confirm that the shots struck the agent’s vehicle. The federal law enforcement official was not struck by the gunfire.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents released a group of 40 women who illegally entered the United States from Central American countries at a bus station in south Texas. The influx of women and children illegally crossing the border from Mexico has been increasing steadily over the past year.

U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued a group of 15 illegal aliens and three Americans who had been abandoned by their human smugglers in the New Mexican desert.

A woman believed to have been smuggling three children who had entered the country illegally has been arrested of running through an immigration checkpoint and leading authorities on a high speed chase.

Border Patrol agents in southern California recovered 17 illegal aliens and arrested two others after the human smugglers crashed their pickup truck.

U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien in upstate New York who crossed the Rio Grande River about a year ago.

Nearly 150 U.S. Border Patrol agents have been assaulted during the first two months of the new fiscal year which began October 1. The number represents an increase of more than 230 percent over the same period in FY 2016.

Border Patrol agents in southern California seized nearly $300,000 in “illicit cash” from a suspected smuggler headed south.

Border Patrol agents in southern California stopped three vehicles carrying “human contraband.”

A truck driver was shocked to discover three illegal immigrant stowaways on the roof of his 18 wheeler Friday night in south Texas. “It’s like, How many more’s coming out? It was like a clown box,” he said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials reported a 230 percent increase in the numbers of Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) apprehended along the southwest border with Mexico.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot an illegal immigrant after the agent was assaulted near the Arizona border with Mexico. The agent responded at about 8 p.m. on Friday to the area where two suspected illegal aliens had crossed the border from Mexico. When he arrived at the scene, the agent encountered two adult males, according to information obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials by Breitbart Texas.

Border Patrol officials are expanding a successful human smuggler “most wanted” program to the Del Rio Sector in Texas. The program, called “Se Busca Información,” has yielded successful results in other sectors where it has been implemented.

Total apprehension of illegal aliens along our country’s southwestern border increased for the fifth consecutive month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials reported. It was the tenth month that reported increases over the previous month in the past year.

The family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is looking forward to getting answers about the murder of their family member as President-Elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.

A program targeting the top 10 human smugglers in the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector yielded another arrest.

Federal authorities have charged a Guatemalan national in connection with the assault of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who received a concussion during the attack.

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio Sector arrested a sex offender from Honduras who was deported less than five months prior. The man was the third Honduran sex offender-deportee arrested in the sector in one week.

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio Sector in south Texas arrested a pair of previously deported sex offenders. Both deportees’ sexual offenses involved minors.

Federal agents and officers seized nearly $600,000 worth of cocaine and marijuana in three separate busts in southern Arizona over the past week.

A raid by Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector yielded a stash of fifteen illegal aliens.

Two U.S. citizens and six illegal aliens are in jail after Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona stopped two separate human smuggling attempts.