border security

Miami Mayor and Republican presidential hopeful Francis Suarez says there is a sense of hopelessness along the border. People don’t see an end to the current crisis where only the cartels seem to be benefiting, he explained during a visit to the Texas/ Mexico border.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas on Monday over a buoy barrier Republican Gov. Greg Abbott built in the Rio Grande River without federal approval.

Shortly after the 88th Texas Legislature adjourned sine die, Governor Greg Abbott called them back to what is expected to be several special legislative sessions. The first session, which began Monday night, calls for the legislators to pass bills related to border security and property tax relief.

Democrats will block a border security bill until American citizens accept more poor migrants into their workplaces and neighborhoods, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) told a GOP-led hearing on Tuesday.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) on Saturday blasted the Biden administration for its willingness to spend taxpayer dollars to fund border security in other countries but not the U.S., telling Breitbart News Saturday that it is all part of President Biden’s plan to transform the country and “shift the entire demographics of America in a way that benefits them at the election box.”

Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Monday reported on a growing number of videos posted to China’s controversial TikTok platform that teach Chinese nationals how to sneak across the U.S. border from Mexico.

America “needs” immigrants in order to “pick the food we eat” and “clean our homes,” according to progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) who faced accusations of “racism” over her recent comments.

Britain’s Home Secretary has said boat migrants who may be removed from Britain and resettled in Rwanda should think of the arrangements as a “blessing”, infuriating anti-borders activists and politicians.

Former President Donald Trump leads Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) by nearly 30 points in a hypothetical head-to-head primary match-up in Arizona, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll.

Rebecca Kiessling, who lost two sons to fentanyl poisoning, said many parents in support groups blame Joe Biden for their children’s deaths.

NGOs rejected proposals to build border walls to stop illegal migration flows, likening walls and barriers to Brexit.

European Union leaders claim they will increase security on the bloc’s common external border after illegal arrivals topped 330,000 last year, the highest number since the 2015-16 migrant crisis.

Germany is using the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria as an excuse to weaken border controls, vowing to allow in many more migrants said to be fleeing the crisis.

Bulgarian border guards have been accused of pushing back and even beating illegal immigrants by open borders activists and others, but the Bulgarian authorities deny any abuses have taken place.

The number of migrants being hosted in British hotels at the taxpayers’ expense rose from 2,577 in March 2020 to 37,142 by September 2022.

Gangs smuggling boat migrants across the English Channel may be linked to a Taliban military formation and pose a serious national security risk, according to Nigel Farage. 

Hundreds of serious criminals including a convicted murderer, a serial paedophile, and an Islamic State jihadist have been found among the boat migrants landing in Britain unopposed by the tens of thousands, according to a report. 

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, this week and used the opportunity to draw attention to the ongoing fentanyl crisis in the United States and urged Congress to secure the southern border.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU’s border and coast guard agency said Friday.

The Hungarian government says it apprehended some 269,254 “illegal entrants” at its southern border in 2022; a huge jump from the already high figure of 122,239 in 2021.

As Sweden takes on the Presidency of the European Council for the first six months of 2023, a Swedish ambassador has stated the country has no intentions of brokering a deal on curbing migration.

Alfonzo, the Venezuelan illegal immigrant made into a national icon by Breitbart News, has been named Washington Free Beacon 2022 Man of the Year.

A Border Force officer arrested by anti-corruption cops may have been outed as being an illegal himself, according to a papers claims.

The recently passed omnibus spending bill does not secure the border and enables illegal immigration, border advocates say.

Just before jetting off to enjoy his Christmas holiday, Mitch McConnell left a nice lump of coal for America with his $1.7 trillion (or more!) omnibus spending package. There’s a lot to hate in this package, between millions for LGBTQ museums in New York and extra funding for the House Diversity and Inclusion office.

Lithuania has completed a fence along the border with Belarus and a surveillance system to monitor for illegals.

India’s top diplomat, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, told the nation’s Parliament this week that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stationed more troops on India’s border with China than ever in response to repeated invasions by the Communist Party’s armed forces.

The $1.7 trillion year-end omnibus spending bill uses hundreds of millions of dollars of American taxpayer money to fund border security initiatives overseas as the United States, at its own border, is projected to set illegal immigration records next year.

Retired Indian General MM Naravane, who served as chief of army staff until last April, lobbed a torrent of insults at the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Thursday over its latest invasion of India’s northern border, calling their methods “prehistoric” and accusing them of “hooliganism.”

Britain’s Border Force will abandon their posts at airports in strike during the Christmas holiday period, the PCS union announced this week.

The French government has ramped up controls at its border with Italy, checking trains for illegals on a daily basis and pushing back thousands to Italy so far this year.

Border police dismantled a major trafficking network in the southern city of Perpignan, accused of smuggling over 200 migrants into France. 

Greek authorities have arrested seven Egyptian nationals accused of people-smuggling after a boat with nearly 500 migrants aboard was brought to the island of Crete this week.

A migrant from Jordan with three unenforced deportation orders under multiple identities has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in a Paris hospital emergency room late last month.

The U.S. government needs to “secure the damn border already,” according to newly-elected Republican congressman Nick LaLota (NY-1 House seat previously held by Lee Zeldin), who also called to put the country’s economy “back on the right track” by making America energy independent and expressed his wish for leaders in Washington to be “as concerned with our own border as they [are] with other nations’ borders.”

Hungary, Austria, and Serbia have agreed to coordinate to reduce illegal migrant flows on the Balkan route, with Serbia deploying more police along its southern border and Austria providing reinforcements.